"Dozens of distinguished authors from all over the world contribute to this comprehensive handbook, covering 52 different topics in its 1130-plus pages. The comparison and contrast of various cultures provides readers with a thorough understanding of human behavior. The book should be in the libraries of both students and professionals. Weighted Numerical Score: 98 - 5 Stars!" -- DOODY'S
"In sum, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology will challenge readers to
understand the complexity and variety of human cultural psychology. Libraries and
individual scholars, such as academic psychologists and social scientists interested in
cultural phenomena, will want it on their shelves as a reference source." -- PsycCRITIQUES

The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary resource. Linking psychology, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, and history, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the quintessential volume that unites the variable perspectives from these disciplines. Comprised of over fifty contributed chapters, this book provides a necessary, comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural psychology. Bridging psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives, one will find in this handbook: - A concise history of psychology that includes valuable resources for innovation in psychology in general and cultural psychology in particular - Interdisciplinary chapters including insights into cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, culture and conceptions of the self, and semiotics and cultural connections - Close, conceptual links with contemporary biological sciences, especially developmental biology, and with other social sciences - A section detailing potential methodological innovations for cultural psychology By comparing cultures and the (often differing) human psychological functions occuring within them, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the ideal resource for making sense of complex and varied human phenomena.
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Now in paperback, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is an internationally representative overview of the state of the art in cultural psychology.
Part One: Historical Linkages of Culture and Psychology ; Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds ; Jaan Valsiner ; 1. Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History ; Gustav Jahoda ; 2. Volkerpsychologie ; Rainer Diriwachter ; 3. Cultural-historical Psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky ; Rene van der Veer ; Part Two: Inter- and Intra-disciplinary Perspectives ; 4. The Role of Indigenous Psychologies in the Building of Basic Cultural Psychology ; Pradeep Chakkarath ; 5. Cultural Anthropology ; Susan Rasmussen ; 6. Cross-cultural Psychology: Taking People, Contexts, and Situations Seriously ; Heidi Keller ; 7. Archaeology and the Study of Material Culture: Synergies with Cultural Psychology ; Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal ; Part Three: Positions in the Field ; 8. Enactivism ; Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen ; 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-cultural Psychology ; Rom Harre ; 10. Macro-cultural Psychology ; Carl Ratner ; Part Four: Semiosis in Culture and Psychology ; 11. Social Life of the Sign: Sensemaking in Society ; Sergio Salvatore ; 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense ; Robert Innis ; 13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life ; Nikita A. Kharlamov ; 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects ; Rebeca Puche-Navarro ; 15. Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology ; Eero Tarasti ; Part Five: Action, Self, and Narration ; 16. Culture: Result and Condition of Action ; Ernest Boesch ; 17. Culture Inclusive Action Theory: Action Theory in Dialectics and Dialectics in Action Theory ; Lutz Eckensberger ; 18. The Other in the Self: A Triadic Unit ; Livia Mathias Simao ; 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood ; Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado ; 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative ; Jens Brockmeier ; 21. Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach ; Kyoko Murakami ; 22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture ; Ivana Markova ; Part Six: Tools for Living: Transcending Social Limitations ; 23. Life Course: A Sociocultural Perspective ; Tania Zittoun ; 24. Being Poor: Cultural Tools for Survival ; Ana Cecilia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich ; 25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives ; Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston ; 26. Belonging to Gender: Social Identities, Symbolic Boundaries, and Images ; Ana Flavia do Amaral Madureira ; 27. Risk and Culture ; Bob Heyman ; 28. Constructing Histories ; Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez ; Part Seven: Emergence of Culture ; 29. Roots of Culture in the Umwelt ; Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull ; 30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View ; Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg ; 31. From Material to Symbolic Cultures: Culture in Primates ; Christophe Boesch ; Part Eight: Human Movement Through Culture ; 32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements ; Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago ; 33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation ; Zachary Beckstead ; 34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies ; Mariann Martsin and Hala W. Mahmoud ; Part Nine: Culture of Higher Social Regulators: Values, Magic, and Duties ; 35. Values and Sociocultural Practices: Pathways to Moral Development ; Angela Uchoa Branco ; 36. The Inter-generational Continuity of Values ; M. Bame Nsamenang ; 37. The Making of Magic: Cultural Constructions of the Mundane Supernatural ; Meike Watzlawik and Jaan Valsiner ; 38. Duties and Rights ; Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren ; Part Ten: Cultural interfaces: Persons and Institutions ; 39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings ; Harry Daniels ; 40. The Work of Schooling ; Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone ; 41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices ; Angelica Lopez, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejia Arauz ; 42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research ; Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole ; Part Eleven: Social Networks and Cultural Affectivity ; 43. Affective Networks: The Social Terrain of a Complex Culture ; Nandita Chaudhary ; 44. Peer Relations ; Li Xiao-wen ; 45. Culture in Play ; Bert van Oers ; 46. Affect and Culture ; Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang Friedlmeier ; Part Twelve: Towards Methodological Innovations for Cultural Psychology ; 47. Ambivalence and its Transformations ; Emily Abbey ; 48. Guesses on the Future of Cultural Psychology: Past, Present-and-past ; Aaro Toomela ; 49. Culture in Constructive Remembering ; Brady Wagoner ; 50. How Can We Study Interactions Mediated by Money as a Cultural Tool: From the Perspectives of Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan ; 51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to Psychological Well-being ; Tatsuya Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka ; 52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future Directions and Their Implications ; Jaan Valsiner
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"Dozens of distinguished authors from all over the world contribute to this comprehensive handbook, covering 52 different topics in its 1130-plus pages. The comparison and contrast of various cultures provides readers with a thorough understanding of human behavior. The book should be in the libraries of both students and professionals. Weighted Numerical Score: 98 - 5 Stars!" -- DOODY'S "In sum, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology will challenge readers to understand the complexity and variety of human cultural psychology. Libraries and individual scholars, such as academic psychologists and social scientists interested in cultural phenomena, will want it on their shelves as a reference source." -- PsycCRITIQUES
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Selling point: Unifies psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives Selling point: Includes over fifty expertly authored chapters from 70+ leading international scholars in culture and psychology Selling point: Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University; Professor of Psychology, Clark University; and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.
Selling point: Unifies psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives Selling point: Includes over fifty expertly authored chapters from 70+ leading international scholars in culture and psychology Selling point: Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
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ISBN
9780199366200
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
1928 gr
Høyde
175 mm
Bredde
251 mm
Dybde
51 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
1152

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Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University; Professor of Psychology, Clark University; and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.