Showing papers by "Jaan Valsiner published in 2001"

Process Structure of Semiotic Mediation in Human Development

Abstract: Development of semiotic mediation of psychological functions entails construction and use of signs to regulate both interpersonal and intrapersonal psychological processes. The latter can be viewed as

Discerning the Dialogical Self: A Theoretical and Methodological Examination of a Nepali Adolescent's Narrative

Abstract: Mikhail BAKHTINs theoretische Konzepte – Heteroglossie, Stimme und Dialogizitat – sind von einer herausragenden Bedeutung fur die Untersuchung personlicher und sozialer Komponenten der menschlichen Entwicklung, und zwar im besonderen fur die Untersuchung der Identitatsentwicklung innerhalb (unterschiedlicher) kultureller Welten. Bisher sind methodologische und analytische Verfahren zur Rekonstruktion von "Stimmen" in individuellen Selbstdarstellungen noch vergleichsweise unerforscht. In unserem Beitrag werden wir zu zeigen versuchen, wie BAKHTINs Konzepte in einem narrationsanalytischen Ansatz verwandt werden konnen, der die Untersuchung kulturbezogener Identitatsbildung und Positionierung zum Ziel hat. Wir verdeutlichen dies am Beispiel der selbstbezogenen Narrationen eines nepalesischen Jugendlichen, die im Rahmen einer grosen ethnographischen Studie in einer landlichen Gemeinschaft in Nepal erhoben wurden. Es soll – in einem engen Nebeneinander von Theorie und Methode – gezeigt werden, wie Personen ihnen verfugbare kulturelle und soziale "Stimmen" verwenden zur Kreation ihres Selbstbildes und zur Antizipation ihrer kunftigen sozialen Position in ihrer Kultur. Unsere Studie der jugendlichen Narrationen legt nahe, dass soziale "Stimmen" gewahlt und transformiert werden zur (Re-) Konstruktion vergangener, gegenwartiger und zukunftiger Selbstbilder und kultureller Bedeutungsgehalte. Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrages steht die Bemuhung, Forschende auf theoretische Konzepte und auf methodische Verfahren aufmerksam zu machen, die wesentlich dazu beitragen konnen, diese "Stimmen" und ihre Inszenierung wahrzunehmen und zu verstehen. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0103187

The First Six Years: Culture’s Adventures in Psychology:

Abstract: The first six years of Culture & Psychologyhave been productive in the creation of an international forum of scholarly interchanges where the notion of ‘culture’ occurs in a number of different way...

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology: General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move: Semiotic Methodology in the Making

Abstract: This chapter discusses the relationship between children and money in developmental psychology researches. It summarizes the four maxims of developmental psychology for money. First, it is not predicated on the homo economics as rational economic decision-makers. Second, in analyzing children's understanding and knowledge of money, such understanding and knowledge should be always discussed in association with children's life-world, instead of separating from it. Third, it is not predicated on a neutral money goods exchange system in market economy, but should be analyzed in the social context with its own cultures and histories. Fourth, developmental psychology for money inquires how children would appropriate money as a cultural tool and change their participation in their societies through the appropriation. The chapter explores how they would form new culture through implementation of such activities, instead of inquiring how children would understand money as a neutral tool which functions in a market economy system.

Contemplating Self: From India to Contemporary Self-Psychology

Abstract: Anand Paranjpe has written a thorough treatise that attempts to integrate the western psychology of the person and self with the traditions of Indian thought. The book is rich in thoughtful criticisms of western psychology, its superficial overlooking of non-western thought, and suggestions for integration with the borrowings of basic ideas from Indian philosophical traditions. The latter are introduced to unprepared (western) readers with the calmness of the pleasure of contemplation of basic ideas. The politics of western psychology—which keeps the discipline within its reins of triviality—emerges on the scene only occasionally. In many ways that makes sense. For in solving major conceptual problems, political discourse does not help, but serves as a blinder. The book also includes thoughtful (even if at times brief) overviews of relevant theorists of the self in the history of western psychology (Erikson, Piaget, Cooley, Mead, James, etc.) and treats the issues of emotion. The reader finds out how some tendencies in the history of western psychology—especially those emanating from Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl—moved along lines that have parallels in Indian thought (pp. 80–82, 226–228). Within the whole richness of analytic reviewing of others’ ideas,

Review Essay: Glory to the Fools: Ambiguities in Development through Play within Games

Abstract: Life is play—even in its most dramatic and tragic forms. Human beings play different roles in their dramas, ranging from the "politically correct" colourless persons to politicians, village idiots, advertising tricksters, and—last but not least —social scientists. The latter—in their efforts to be taken seriously—often forget that theirs is a kind of play, or—a play upon play. KOEPPING's volume fills in a major gap in the coverage of the "unserious" social roles that are abundant in the history of religion and folklore, but which social sciences can fail to recognize. [1]