Macro Cultural Psychology
Macro Cultural Psychology

Author: Carl Ratner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 0195373545

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This book articulates a bold, new, systematic theory of psychology, culture, and their interrelation. It explains how macro cultural factors -- social institutions, cultural artifacts, and cultural concepts -- are the cornerstones of society and how they form the origins and characteristics of psychological phenomena. This theory is used to explain the diversity of psychological phenomena such as emotions, self, intelligence, sexuality, memory, reasoning, perception, developmental processes, and mental illness. Ratner draws upon Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural psychology, Bronfenbrenner's ecological psychology, as well as work in sociology, anthropology, history, and geography, to explore the political implications and assumptions of psychological theories regarding social policy and reform.The theory outlined here addresses current theoretical and political issues such as agency, realism, objectivity, subjectivism, structuralism, postmodernism, and multiculturalism. In this sense, the book articulates a systematic political philosophy of mind to examine numerous approaches to psychology, including indigenous psychology, cross-cultural psychology, activity theory, discourse analysis, mainstream psychology, and evolutionary psychology.

Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology
Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology

Author: Robert E. Innis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2020-11-22

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9783030581893

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This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology. The first chapter frames central analytical and normative threads, foregrounding the focal notion of thresholds of sense. The second chapter explores the nature of contexts, situations, and backgrounds of meaning-making following the lead of John Dewey, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, and Gernot Böhme. Chapter three examines the complementary analytical power of the semiotic resources developed in the work of Peirce, Bühler, and Cassirer. Chapter four shows the heuristic fertility and psychological bearing of Susanne Langer's feeling-based aesthetic model of minding. The final chapter establishes affectivation as the inescapable consequence of human beings giving life to themselves by giving life to signs. The Brief concludes with three commentaries from leading researchers in the area. The chapters weave together interlocking themes: the nature of embodied perception, the variety of contexts and semiotic frameworks and their schematization of thresholds of meaning-making, the role of art and theories of imagination both in cultural psychology and in philosophy, and the centrality of feeling in all forms of meaning-making. Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology will be of interest to cognitive and cultural psychologists as well as researchers and upper-graduate students in philosophy and related psychology fields.

Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology
Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology

Author: Robert E. Innis

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 303058190X

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This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology. The first chapter frames central analytical and normative threads, foregrounding the focal notion of thresholds of sense. The second chapter explores the nature of contexts, situations, and backgrounds of meaning-making following the lead of John Dewey, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, and Gernot Böhme. Chapter three examines the complementary analytical power of the semiotic resources developed in the work of Peirce, Bühler, and Cassirer. Chapter four shows the heuristic fertility and psychological bearing of Susanne Langer's feeling-based aesthetic model of minding. The final chapter establishes affectivation as the inescapable consequence of human beings giving life to themselves by giving life to signs. The Brief concludes with three commentaries from leading researchers in the area. The chapters weave together interlocking themes: the nature of embodied perception, the variety of contexts and semiotic frameworks and their schematization of thresholds of meaning-making, the role of art and theories of imagination both in cultural psychology and in philosophy, and the centrality of feeling in all forms of meaning-making. Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology will be of interest to cognitive and cultural psychologists as well as researchers and upper-graduate students in philosophy and related psychology fields.

Thinking About Oneself
Thinking About Oneself

Author: Waldomiro J. Silva-Filho

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3030182665

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This book advances our theoretical understanding of the human experience. By overcoming dualities such as the relationship between reflection and action, it allows a more in-depth analysis of how concepts constitute complementary parts of the complex human thinking to be developed. Presenting texts written by leading philosophers and psychologists, it provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of theoretical elaboration, which is then used to discuss the place and value of reflection in moral and epistemic scenes. These topics are accessible to experts and young scholars in the field alike, and offer scope for further reflections that could improve our understanding beyond the existing models and “-isms”. The novelty of the book is in the dialogue established between several perspectives (e.g. philosophers and psychologists; Europe, America and Asia; etc.). The contributions of philosophers and psychologists establish a fruitful dialogue, so that readers realize that disciplinary divisions are overcome through dialogue and the common object of inquiry: the way human beings reflect and act in their everyday experiences.

An Invitation to Cultural Psychology
An Invitation to Cultural Psychology

Author: Jaan Valsiner

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-07-21

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1473905966

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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 core basis for human cultural living. Jaan Valsiner is the founding editor of the major journal in the field, Culture & Psychology, and Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology. He is the first Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he leads Europe′s first Research Centre on Cultural Psychology.

The Challenges of Cultural Psychology
The Challenges of Cultural Psychology

Author: Gordana Jovanović

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9781138677227

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Cultural psychology as a human science / Gordana Jovanovic -- Natureculture in a transformative worldview: moving beyond the "interactionist consensus" / Anna Stetsenko -- Nature unveiling herself before science: the relationship between mind and culture in the perspective of Giambattista Vico / Luca Tateo -- Völkerpsychologie as cultural psychology: the place of culture in Wundt's psychological project / Saulo de Freitas Araujo -- Wilhelm Dilthey's conception of a descriptive and comprehensive psychology / Hans-Ulrich Lessing -- Ernst Cassirer's cultural theory: culture as symbolical practice / Jan Weyand -- Roots and rise of cultural psychology / Lars Allolio-Näcke -- Culture and personality: a once and future research program? / Christian G. Allesch -- Bruner's lectures: cultural psychology in statu nascendi / William R. Woodward -- Ernst E. Boesch and his symbolic action theory / Lars Allolio-Näcke -- The repression of cultural psychology in the history of psychology / Gordana Jovanovic -- Contingent universals as the expression of a culture / Rom Harré and Jean-Pierre Llored -- The place of culture in psychology: a social constructionist standpoint / Kenneth Gergen -- Light through a cultural lens: decolonizing the history of psychology and resilience / Wade E. Pickren -- Narrative psychology as cultural psychology / Csaba Pléh -- Towards cultural (African) psychology: links, challenges and possibilities / Kopano Ratele -- The self in Japanese culture from an embodied perspective / Shogo Tanaka -- The moving body / Elisa Krause-Kjær, Jensine I. Nedergaard, & Jaan Valsiner -- Toward a vygotskian analysis of emotions: theoretical and methodological bases for a critical social psychology / Gisele Toassa -- Aesthetics and cultural psychology / Christian G. Allesch -- Let one person's tears not be infectious: Efik proverbs as emotion regulation exemplars / Vivian Dzokoto, Eyo Mensah, Eunsoo Choi, and Melissa Washington-Nortey -- Cultural-historical hyperobjects / Cathrine Hasse -- The genesis of macro cultural psychology's culture theory from traditional cultural psychology / Carl Ratner -- The genesis of macro cultural psychology's political orientation from other approaches to cultural psychology / Carl Ratner -- Thinking with cultural psychology about the future / Gordana Jovanovic, Luca Tateo, and Csaba Pléh

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology
The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

Author: Jaan Valsiner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-03-08

Total Pages: 1149

ISBN-13: 0199930635

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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.

Handbook of Cultural Psychology
Handbook of Cultural Psychology

Author: Shinobu Kitayama

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 1606236113

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Bringing together leading authorities, this definitive handbook provides a comprehensive review of the field of cultural psychology. Major theoretical perspectives are explained, and methodological issues and challenges are discussed. The volume examines how topics fundamental to psychology?identity and social relations, the self, cognition, emotion and motivation, and development?are influenced by cultural meanings and practices. It also presents cutting-edge work on the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of cultural stability and change. In all, more than 60 contributors have written over 30 chapters covering such diverse areas as food, love, religion, intelligence, language, attachment, narratives, and work.

The Cultural Psychology of Self
The Cultural Psychology of Self

Author: Ciaran Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1134962185

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Philosophers and psychologists both investigate the self, but often in isolation from one another. this book brings together studies by philosophers and psychologists in an exploration of the self and its function. It will be of interest to all those involved in philosophy, psychology and sociology.