An Invitation to Cultural Psychology

by Jaan Valsiner

An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology – that of semiotic dynamics .

Based on historical work from many different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and the humanities too, this perspective applied to cultural psychology suggests that human beings are constantly creating, maintaining and abandoning hierarchies of meanings within all cultural contexts they experience. It’s a perspective that leans heavily on the work of the great French philosopher, Henri Bergson, only now being realised as a core basis for human cultural living.

Jaan Valsiner is the founding editor of the major journal in the field, Culture & Psychology , and Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology . He is the first Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he leads Europe′s first Research Centre on Cultural Psychology.

Genres: Psychology

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Diego Chacano Osses · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book in psychology I have read.

[Giulia Poli · Rating 5 out of 5]

questo libro è la mia tana del bianconiglio un secondo prima stavo preparando l'esame di psicologia sociale da dare con un vecchietto fissato con i comportamentisti e un secondo dopo sto sprofondando nella pluralità di definizioni del concetto di semiosfera