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10%OFFJaan Valsiner - The Guided Mind. Sociogenetic Approach to Personality.  - 9780674367579 - V9780674367579
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The Guided Mind. Sociogenetic Approach to Personality.

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Description for The Guided Mind. Sociogenetic Approach to Personality. Hardcover. How is something as complex as the personality organized? What makes up a satisfactory theory of the personality? This study addresses these questions, as the author attempts to integrate two approaches: the individualistic tradition of personalistic psychology and cultural-historical psychology. Num Pages: 480 pages, 14 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 39. Weight in Grams: 799.

How is something as broad and complex as a personality organized? What makes up a satisfactory theory of personality? In this ambitious book, Jaan Valsiner argues for a theoretical integration of two long-standing approaches: the individualistic tradition of personalistic psychology, typified by the work of William Stern and Gordon Allport, and the semiotic tradition of cultural-historical psychology, typified by the work of L. S. Vygotsky. The two are brought together in Valsiner's theory, which highlights the sign-constructing and sign-using nature of all distinctively human psychological processes.

Arguing that the individualistic and the cultural traditions differ largely in emphasis, Valsiner ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674367579
SKU
V9780674367579
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About Jaan Valsiner
Jaan Valsiner is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Reviews for The Guided Mind. Sociogenetic Approach to Personality.
Lovers of Vygotsky, Lewin, G. Allport, Stern, and Bakhtin rejoice: The Guided Mind relies on the perspectives of these (and other) theoreticians to provide a provocative account of how personality may be organized.
D. S. Dunn
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