Full Description
The book provides conceptual and theoretical elaborations on human values from a cultural psychological approach. The authors illustrate their original contributions with empirical data, allowing for productive discussion on the topic of ontogenesis of values from a historical-cultural perspective.
Contents
Contents: Editors' Introduction: Values as Culture in Self and Society; Angela Branco and Jaan Valsiner.
Part I. Sociocultural Ecology of Values.
Chapter 1. Values, Virtues, Citizenship, and Self From a Historical and Cultural Approach; Alberto Rosa and Fernanda González.
Chapter 2. Cultural Practices and Value Constructions: The Development of Competition and Individualism Within Societies; Angela Branco, Marilicia Palmieri, and Raquel Gomes Pinto.
Chapter 3. Cultural Ecology of Value Promotion; Jonathan R. H. Tudge, Cesar A. Piccinini, Rita S. Lopez, Tania M. Sperb, and Selma C. Dansokho.
Part II. Values in the Field: Framing of Actions.
Chapter 4. Values Internalization on the Move: The Revivification of Faith Along the Pilgrims Path; Zachary Beckstead.
Chapter 5. Making Sense of the Bindi: Urban Indians' Appraisal of a Culturally Valued Symbol; Nandita Chaudhary.
Chapter 6. The Semiotic Construction of Values of Violence in the Colombian Context; Francisco José Rengifo Herrera.
Part III. Values and Prejudices: Marking the Borders of Approach-Avoidance Dynamics.
Chapter 7. Persons Living Race in Culture and Society: Psychological Complexity of Symbolic Meaning and Human Values; Cynthia E. Winston.
Chapter 8. Diversity and Inclusion as Central Values in the Construction of a Democratic World; Ana Flávia do Amaral Madureira and Angela Uchoa Branco.
Part IV. Inclusion and/or Exclusion: Cultural Ambivalences.
Chapter 9. Education, Peace, or Jail Culture? What Is Promoted by Institutions in Charge of Adolescents Involved With Criminal Activities; Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes de Oliveira and Tatiana Yokoy de Souza.
Chapter 10. Between Freedom and Captivity: Life Projects of Male Ex-Prisoners; Charlotte Mathiassen.
About the Contributors.