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.