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The handbook emphasizes theoretical and methodological discussions on the cultural nature of human psychological phenomena, moving on to show how meaning is a natural feature of action and how it eventually produces conventional symbols for communication.
978-0-521-46278-5 - Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing Edited by Laura M. W. Martin, Katherine Nelson and Ethel Tobach Frontmatter
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Mar 6, 2020 · Publisher description: The first handbook of Socio-cultural Psychology to deal with such a variety of themes and wide international scope. Valsiner and Rossa approach human psychology in all its complexity, providing a comprehensive description and explanation of the development of meaning -making.
on experience and development as key features of sociocultural psychology. is a professor of psychology at the Universidad Aut noma de Madrid, Spain, where he lectures on the history of psychology and cultural psychology. He has carried out research and edited books on the developmental psychology of the physically challenged, notably
work in sociocultural psychology that adopts constitutive, strongly rela-tional perspectives. Moreover, many colleges and universities now offer courses in fields such as cultural psychology and narrative psychology; a growing number of graduate programs even afford students the opportu-nity to specialize in sociocultural theories and methods.
Since the early 20th century, cultural differences between languages have been a major topic of scientific debate in linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. The chapter explains some of the theoretical and methodical domains, which currently set much of social and cultural psychology's agenda.
Sociology, Psychology, History. This handbook provides a representative international overview of the state of our contemporary knowledge in sociocultural psychology – as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities.
