The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/12/2018
EAN 9781107157699, ISBN10: 1107157692

Hardcover, 688 pages, 25.2 x 17.8 x 3.5 cm
Language: English

Sociocultural psychology is a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This international overview of the field provides an antireductionist and comprehensive account of how experience and behaviour arise from human action with cultural materials in social practices. The outcome is a vision of the dynamics of sociocultural and personal life in which time and developmental constructive transformations are crucial. This second edition provides expanded coverage of how particular cultural artefacts and social practices shape experience and behaviour in the realms of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics. Special attention is also paid to the development of identity, the self and personhood throughout the lifespan, while retaining the emphasis on experience and development as key features of sociocultural psychology.

Editors' introduction
sociocultural psychology on the move; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues
1. The human psyche lives in semiospheres
2. Psychology as the science of sensemaking
A semiotic-cultural framework for psychology; 3. Knowledge and experience
interobjectivity, subjectivity and social relations
4. Against 'mediationism'
both cognitive and sociocultural
5. Sociocultural psychology and interpersonal psychoanalysis
the semiotic space in the consulting room
Part II. Action, Objects, Artefacts and Meaning
6. Spirited psyche makes up artefacts. Semiotic dynamics of experience in the shaping of objects, agency and intentional worlds
7. Making social objects
the theory of social representation
8. Beyond the distinction between tool and sign
objects and artifacts in human activity
9. The sociocultural study of creative action
10. Symbolic resources and imagination in the dynamics of life
Part III. The Agent Rises a Reflective Self
Education and Development
11. Early infancy
a moving world. Embodied experience and the emergence of thinking
12. Object Pragmatics
Culture and communication, the bases for early cognitive development
13. Distinguishing two processes of self-reflection Alex Gillespie
14. Making memory
meaning in development of the autobiographical self
15. Mapping dialogic pedagogy
instrumental and non-instrumental education
16. Development and education as crossing socio-cultural boundaries
Part IV. Institutional Artefacts for Value
17. Ownership and exchange in children. Implications for social and moral development
18. Possessions and money beyond market economy
Part V. Aesthetic and Religious Experiences
19. The sociocultural constitution of aesthetic transcendence
20. Sociocultural science of religion and natural belief
21. Psyche and Religio face to face
religion, psychology and modern, subjectivity in the mirror
Part VI. Practices and Artefacts for Imagining Identity
22. Imaginative processes and the making of collective realities in national allegories
23. National identities in the making and alternative pathways for history education
24. The politics of representing the past
symbolic spaces of positioning and irony
25. Beyond historical guilt
intergenerational narratives of violence and reconciliation
26. Psytizenship
sociocultural mediations in the historical shapings of the Western citizen
Part VII. Experiences Make the Person
27. The human experience
a dialogical account of self and feelings
28. Knowing ourselves
dances of social guidance, imagination and development by overcoming ambivalence
29. Personal history and historical selfhood – the embodied and pre-reflective dimension
30. The development of a person – children's experience within the cultural life course
31. The construction of the person in the interethnic situation
dialogues with indigenous university students
32. Social identities, gender and self
cultural canalization in imagery societies
33. The experience of ageing
views from within and without
General conclusions
An epistemological coda
sociocultural psychology among the sciences.