The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology: FROM NATURE TO CULTURE
By J. Valsiner, A. Rosa. 2007
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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. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline – cultural psychology – that has built new connections between psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, and semiotics. The handbook integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries, all tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. 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. Such symbols shape individual experiences and create the conditions for consciousness and the self to emerge; turn social norms into ethics; and set history into motion.
Subfields: General Psychology, Social Psychology
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- Extending Sociocultural Theory to Group Creativity (2012, background): “Socioculturalism, as defined here, includes cultural psychologists, Vygotskian educational theorists, and those studying situated action and distributed cognition (Bruner 1990; Cole 1996; Forman et al. 1993; Lave and Wenger 1991; Rogoff 1990; Stigler et al. 1990; Suchman 1987; Valsiner 1998b; Valsin”
- A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, background): “…have in common a recognition of the fact that culture is not simply an external context for the development of the person but a condition for our existence as human beings, and that mind and culture need to be studied in a systemic, holistic, and developmental manner (Valsiner & Rosa, 2007).”
- Affect, unconscious and sensemaking. A psychodynamic, semiotic and dialogic model (2011, background): “Our standpoint is the view of sensemaking elaborated by cultural psychology, in particular by the semiotic and dialogical approach in this discipline (Linell, 2009; Salgado & Gonçalves, 2007; Valsiner & Rosa, 2007; Zittoun, 2007).”