A cultural perspective on every developmental stage from pregnancy to old age, demonstrating the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. It features broad coverage of theoretical and methodological issues which have relevance to this field of enquiry.
That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new
This book offers a dynamic new cultural-historical approach to developmental psychology based on the subtle interplay of personal, cultural, physiological, and psychological factors in a child's development.
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.
This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices.
The book includes a new theoretical synthesis of William Stern’s classic personology published in the 1930s with contemporary cultural psychology of semiotic mediation developed by the author over the last two decades.
That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new
The book includes a new theoretical synthesis of William Stern’s classic personology published in the 1930s with contemporary cultural psychology of semiotic mediation developed by the author over the last two decades.
This is the very first authoritative book on the role of Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) in the history of psychology. The book emphasizes the... Læs mere