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Jaan Valsiner - An Invitation to Cultural Psychology - 9781446248782 - V9781446248782
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An Invitation to Cultural Psychology

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Description for An Invitation to Cultural Psychology Paperback. An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology - that of semiotic dynamics. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 520.
An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology – that of semiotic dynamics.

Based on historical work from many different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and the humanities too, this perspective applied to cultural psychology suggests that human beings are constantly creating, maintaining and abandoning hierarchies of meanings within all cultural contexts they experience. It’s a perspective that leans heavily on the work of the great French philosopher, Henri Bergson, only now being realised as a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
519 g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781446248782
SKU
V9781446248782
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About Jaan Valsiner
Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology.  And of The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology (2012). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences  (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in ... Read more

Reviews for An Invitation to Cultural Psychology
An Invitation to Cultural Psychology is a fascinating and timely volume. It offers rich insights into the connections between personal subjective and social collective domains of human experience, demonstrating the importance of integrating these perspectives in cultural psychology for more nuanced approaches to the study of humans as individual and cultural  actors.
Susan Rasmussen From one of the great ... Read more

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