Culture in Minds and Societies〈Second Edition 2026〉 : Foundations of Cultural Psychology

著者名：Valsiner, Jaan

Springer（2026/01/27発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783032116345
• eISBN：9783032116352

Description

Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment of culture in human lives. This book makes a decisive break from the post-modernist theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. It restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from birth to death, it emphasizes the universality of cultural organization of human minds and societies.

Table of Contents

Part I. Setting the stage: Culture- where is it?.- Chapter 1. Approaches to Culture— Beyond the Common Language.- Chapter 2. Culture as Semiosis.- Chapter 3. Signs, Society and Community.- Chapter 4. Social Structures and their Differentiation.- Part II. Semiotic Dynamics in Societies.- Chapter 5. Minimal Communities and Their Organization: Kinship groups, families,  and marriage forms.- Chapter 6. Cultural Wholes on the Move: Maintenance and Crossing of Boundaries in the Semiotic Universes.- Chapter 7. Making Oppositions: Dualities in Meaning Making and the Polyphonic System of the Soul.- Chapter 8. Thinking as a cultural process.- Part III. The role of person in cultural psychology.- Chapter 9. Semiotic fields in action: Affective guiding of the psyche.- Chapter 10. Constructive internalization and externalization.- Part IV. Methodology of cultural psychology.- Chapter 11. Creating basic knowledge: the Methodology Cycle in Cultural Psychology.- Chapter 12. Microgenetic Methods for Cultural Psychology.- Chapter 13. Transmodal methodology.- Chapter 14. Culture in minds and societies.