Showing papers by "Jaan Valsiner published in 2000"
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03 Jul 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the social mind in action: socially guided intellectual interdependency in science is discussed, and the social person today is defined as continuities and interdependencies.
Abstract: General introduction 1. Development of ideas in sciences: intellectual interdependency and its social framework 2. Social suggestion and mind 3. Pierre Janet's world of tensions 4. James Mark Baldwin's theoretical heritage 5. Pragmatism and the social mind: an American context 6. George Herbert Mead's development of the self 7. Striving towards the whole: losing development in the course of history 8. Vygotsky's world of concepts 9. The social person today: continuities and interdependencies 10. General conclusion: social mind in action: socially guided intellectual interdependency in science.
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Book•
01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Theoretical foundations of developmental and cultural psychology can be found in this article, where the authors create knowledge of cultural human development through the creation of knowledge of human development and its development.
Abstract: Introduction How Do We Create Knowledge of Cultural Human Development PART ONE: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY Stability and Flow in Human Experience Philosophical Preliminaries The Developmental Approach Theoretical Bases of Developmental and Cultural Psychology Culture and Development Developmental Methodology in Cultural Development Psychology PART TWO: ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Structure and Dynamics of Family/Kinship Groups and Marriage Forms Cultural Organization of Human Life Environments PART THREE: CULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF PREGNANCY AND INFANCY Cultural Nature of Parent-Offspring Differentiation during Pregnancy Newborn and Infant Development The Cultural-Ecological Niche PART FOUR: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT The Second Year of Life and beyond Self Regulation and Participation in Early Childhood PART FIVE: ENTERING THE WORLD OF ACTIVITIES - CULTURALLY RULED Personal Participation and Its Social-Institutional Guidance Adolescence Moving through into Adulthood
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TL;DR: Jahoda as mentioned in this paper provides a rich historical review of how Europeans have presented the images of the others to themselves over the last three centuries, in various forms such as monstrous body images, child-like descriptions of the character, or presumptions of the habits of eating other humans.
Abstract: Gustav Jahoda’s new book provides a rich historical review of how Europeans have presented the images of the others to themselves over the last three centuries. These presentations come in various forms— monstrous body images, childor animal-like descriptions of the character, or presumptions of the habits of eating other humans. Yet all of these varied presentations can be seen as meaningful regulators of the distance between Europeans and the others. The other persons— savages—are real for the presenters, yet the relationship of the different Europeans to those savages varied immensely. How it varied was surely built upon existing ideologies. Thus, Jahoda describes the ways in which the inhabitants of the Canary Islands were depicted in the 14th century. The savages found there
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TL;DR: In this article, a coexistence das construcoes semioticas retoricas ("democracia da literatura") and substantivas (teoricas) is discussed.
Abstract: Neste trabalho e mostrado que o discurso da Psicologia inclui a coexistencia das construcoes semioticas retoricas ("democracia da literatura") e substantivas (teoricas). As primeiras sao evidenciadas no estilo da referencia imprecisa e acumulativa em textos psicologicos, assim como na repeticao de rotulos genericos de perspectivas (p. ex.: Vygotskiana, Piagetiana, etc.). Em contraste, as construcoes substantivas (teoricas) das ideias entrelacam os lados empiricos abstratos e concretos do processo da pesquisa. Contribuicoes especificas dos artigos neste numero para a compreensao do contexto, desenvolvimento e sistemas dinâmicos sao analisadas brevemente.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a breath of fresh air is brought to the otherwise overly unimaginative social discourse on "social identity" that reigns in contemporary anthropology and psychology, and it is taken for granted that people "have identities" and that such possessions (or "good identities" of their gender, their nation or their workplace) are of positive value.
Abstract: This book brings a breath of fresh air into the otherwise overly unimaginative social discourse on ‘social identity’ that reigns in contemporary anthropology and psychology. In that area of scientific discourse, everyday ideological talk seems to hinder researchers’ imagination. Somehow it is taken for granted that people ‘have identities’ and that such possessions (or ‘good identities’—of their gender, their nation or their workplace) are of positive value. Surely, this is important for the social institutions that use persons’ identities as bases for bonding persons to their social goals, and thus proliferate the myth of the need (for persons) to have their identities. Yet these valuable possessions seem ephemeral—the ‘identities’ that are discussed cannot easily be specified. Hence the need to transcend the all too usual—and seemingly ‘correct’—ways of looking at the
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