Valsiner, Jaan.

Culture in minds and societies : foundations of cultural psychology / Jaan Valsiner. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007. - 430 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-422) and index.

Approaches to culture : semiotic bases for cultural psychology -- Society and community : interdependence of social webs -- Making oppositions : dialogical self and dualities in meaning making -- Minimal communities and their organization : kinship groups, families and marriage forms -- Culture wholes on the move : maintenance and crossing of boundaries in the semiotic universe -- Thinking as a cultural process -- Semiotic fields in action : affective guiding of the internalization/externalization process -- Methodology for cultural psychology : systemic, qualitative and idiographic.

9780761935827 (hard back)


Culture -- Psychological aspects.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Semiotics -- Methodology.
Cognition and culture.

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