Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology (Hardcover)

Editors' introduction. Contemporary social-cultural research: uniting culture, society, and psychology; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues: 1. The myth and beyond: ontology of psyche and epistemology of psychology; 2. Language, cognition, subjectivity - a dynamic constitution; 3. Psychology within time: theorizing about the making of sociocultural psychology; 4. Sampling reconsidered: idiographic science and analysis of personal life trajectories; Part II. From Nature to Culture: 5. The windowless room: 'mediationism' and how to get over it; 6. Functional systems of perception-action and re-mediation; 7. Comparative development of communication: an evolutionary perspective; 8. The material practices of ape language research; 9. The end of myths and legends about biological and cultural evolution: a new view in the knowledge on hominid paleo-ethoecology; Part III. From Orientation to Meaning: 10. Acts of psyche: actuations as synthesis of semiosis and action; 11. Time and movement in symbol formation; 12. Object use, communication and signs: the triadic basis of early cognitive development; 13. Network of meanings: a theoretical-methodological perspective for the investigation of human developmental processes; Part IV. Symbolic Resources for the Constitution of Experience: 14. Dramaturgical actuations and symbolic communication, or how beliefs make up reality; 15. Analysis of cultural emotion: understanding of indigenous psychology for universal implications; 16. The role of symbolic resources in human lives; 17. Perpetual uncertainty of cultural life: becoming reality; 18. Prayer and the kingdom of heavens: psychological tools for directivity; 19. 'Myself, the project': sociocultural interpretations of young adulthood; Part V. From Society to the Person through Culture: 20. Apprenticeship in conversation and culture: emerging sociability in preschool peer talk; 21. The creation of new cultures in peer interaction; 22. 'Culture has no internal territory': culture as dialogue; 23. Cultural-historical approaches to designing for development; 24. Money as a cultural tool mediating personal relationships: child development of exchange and possession; 25. The family: negotiating cultural values; Part VI. From Social Culture to Personal Culture: 26. Culture and social representations; 27. The institutions inside: self, morality and culture; 28. Identity, rights and duties: the illustrative case of positioning by Iran, the United States and the European Union; 29. Symbolic politics and cultural symbols: identity formation between and beyond nations and states; 30. The dialogical self: social, personal, and (un)conscious; Part VII. Making Sense of the Past for the Future: Memory and Self-Reflection: 31. Social and cognitive determinants of collective memory for public events; 32. Collective memory; 33. Issues in the sociocultural study of memory: making memory matter; 34. The social basis of self-reflection; General conclusions.