The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

Edited by Jaan Valsiner

Oxford Library of Psychology

Unifies psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives
Includes over fifty expertly authored chapters from 70+ leading international scholars in culture and psychology
Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

Edited by Jaan Valsiner

Description

The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions — for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings — organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary resource. Linking psychology, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, and history, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the quintessential volume that unites the variable perspectives from these disciplines.

Comprised of over fifty contributed chapters, this book provides a necessary, comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural psychology. Bridging psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives, one will find in this handbook:

- A concise history of psychology that includes valuable resources for innovation in psychology in general and cultural psychology in particular
- Interdisciplinary chapters including insights into cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, culture and conceptions of the self, and semiotics and cultural connections
- Close, conceptual links with contemporary biological sciences, especially developmental biology, and with other social sciences
- A section detailing potential methodological innovations for cultural psychology

By comparing cultures and the (often differing) human psychological functions occuring within them, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the ideal resource for making sense of complex and varied human phenomena.

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

Edited by Jaan Valsiner

Oxford Library of Psychology

Part One: Historical Linkages of Culture and Psychology
Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds
Jaan Valsiner
1. Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History
Gustav Jahoda
2. Völkerpsychologie
Rainer Diriwächter
3. Cultural-historical Psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky
René van der Veer
Part Two: Inter- and Intra-disciplinary Perspectives
4. The Role of Indigenous Psychologies in the Building of Basic Cultural Psychology
Pradeep Chakkarath
5. Cultural Anthropology
Susan Rasmussen
6. Cross-cultural Psychology: Taking People, Contexts, and Situations Seriously
Heidi Keller
7. Archaeology and the Study of Material Culture: Synergies with Cultural Psychology
Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal
Part Three: Positions in the Field
8. Enactivism
Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen
9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-cultural Psychology
Rom Harré
10. Macro-cultural Psychology
Carl Ratner
Part Four: Semiosis in Culture and Psychology
11. Social Life of the Sign: Sensemaking in Society
Sergio Salvatore
12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense
Robert Innis
13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life
Nikita A. Kharlamov
14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects
Rebeca Puche-Navarro
15. Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology
Eero Tarasti
Part Five: Action, Self, and Narration
16. Culture: Result and Condition of Action
Ernest Boesch
17. Culture Inclusive Action Theory: Action Theory in Dialectics and Dialectics in Action Theory
Lutz Eckensberger
18. The Other in the Self: A Triadic Unit
Lívia Mathias Simão
19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood
Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and João Salgado
20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative
Jens Brockmeier
21. Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach
Kyoko Murakami
22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture
Ivana Marková
Part Six: Tools for Living: Transcending Social Limitations
23. Life Course: A Sociocultural Perspective
Tania Zittoun
24. Being Poor: Cultural Tools for Survival
Ana Cecília S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich
25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives
Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston
26. Belonging to Gender: Social Identities, Symbolic Boundaries, and Images
Ana Flávia do Amaral Madureira
27. Risk and Culture
Bob Heyman
28. Constructing Histories
Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez
Part Seven: Emergence of Culture
29. Roots of Culture in the Umwelt
Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull
30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View
Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg
31. From Material to Symbolic Cultures: Culture in Primates
Christophe Boesch
Part Eight: Human Movement Through Culture
32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements
Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago
33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation
Zachary Beckstead
34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies
Mariann Märtsin and Hala W. Mahmoud
Part Nine: Culture of Higher Social Regulators: Values, Magic, and Duties
35. Values and Sociocultural Practices: Pathways to Moral Development
Angela Uchoa Branco
36. The Inter-generational Continuity of Values
M. Bame Nsamenang
37. The Making of Magic: Cultural Constructions of the Mundane Supernatural
Meike Watzlawik and Jaan Valsiner
38. Duties and Rights
Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren
Part Ten: Cultural interfaces: Persons and Institutions
39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings
Harry Daniels
40. The Work of Schooling
Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone
41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices
Angélica López, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejía Arauz
42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research
Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole
Part Eleven: Social Networks and Cultural Affectivity
43. Affective Networks: The Social Terrain of a Complex Culture
Nandita Chaudhary
44. Peer Relations
Li Xiao-wen
45. Culture in Play
Bert van Oers
46. Affect and Culture
Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang Friedlmeier
Part Twelve: Towards Methodological Innovations for Cultural Psychology
47. Ambivalence and its Transformations
Emily Abbey
48. Guesses on the Future of Cultural Psychology: Past, Present-and-past
Aaro Toomela
49. Culture in Constructive Remembering
Brady Wagoner
50. How Can We Study Interactions Mediated by Money as a Cultural Tool: From the Perspectives of Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan
51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to Psychological Well-being
Tatsuya Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka
52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future Directions and Their Implications
Jaan Valsiner

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

Edited by Jaan Valsiner

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Edited by Jaan Valsiner, Professor of Psychology, Aalborg University, Clark University

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University; Professor of Psychology, Clark University; and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.

Contributors:

Emily Abbey
Department of Psychology
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ

Mayu Akasaka
Ritsumeikan University
Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto, Japan

Cor Baerveldt
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ana Cecília S. Bastos
Federal University of Bahia
Institute of Psychology/Institute of Public Health
Salvador, Brazil

Zachary Beckstead
Department of Psychology
Clark University
Worchester, MA

Tiago Bento
ISMAI - Instituto Superior da Maia (ISMAI)
Portugal

Angela Bermudez
School of Education
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Christophe Boesch
Max-Planck-Institut fur Evolutionare Anthropologie
Leipzig, Germany

Ernst E. Boesch
University of Saarbrucken
Germany

Angela Uchoa Branco
Laboratory of Microgenesis in Social Interactions
Instituto de Psicologia-Universidade de Brasília
Brasília, Brazil

Jens Brockmeier
University of Manitoba
Department of Psychology
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Mario Carretero
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and FLACSO
Argentina

Pradeep Chakkarath
Social Theory and Social Psychology
Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany
Bochum, Germany

Nandita Chaudhary
University of Delhi
Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies
Delhi, India

Michael Cole
University of California, San Diego
Department of Communication
La Jolla, CA

Carla C. Cunha
Universidade do Minho e Instituto Superior da Maia (ISMAI)
Portugal

Harry Daniels
Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research
University of Bath
Bath, UK

Rainer Diriwachter
California Lutheran University
Department of Psychology
Thousand Oaks, CA

Deborah Downing-Wilson
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Lutz H. Eckensberger
Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität
Frankfurt, Germany

Wolfgang Friedlmeier
Department of Psychology
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI

Mari Fukuda
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

Alex Gillespie
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling, UK

Simona Ginsburg
Department of Natural Science
The Open University of Israel,
Jerusalem, Israel

Alfredo González-Ruibal
Heritage Laboratory, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Santiago de Compostela
Spain

Rom Harré
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Bob Heyman
Centre for Health and Social Care Research
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK

Tomo Hidaka
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

Manfred Holodynski
Institut for Psychology in Education
University of Münster
Münster, Germany

Antonio Iannaccone
Institute of Psychology and Education
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Robert E. Innis
Department of Philosophy
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MA

Eva Jablonka
The Cohn institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel

Gustav Jahoda
Department of Psychology
University of Strathclyde
Scotland, UK

Irini Kadianaki
Department of Psychology
University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus

Heidi Keller
University of Osnabrueck
Department of Culture and Development
Osnabrueck, Germany

Nikita A. Kharlamov
Department of Psychology
Clark University
Worcester, MA

Ayae Kido
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

Kalevi Kull
Department of Semiotics
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia

Robert Lecusay
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Xiaowen Li
Department of Human Development
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China

Angélica López
Department of Psychology
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

Ana Flávia do Amaral Madureira
Department of Psychology
Centro Universitário de Brasília
Brasilia, Brazil

Riin Magnus
Department of Semiotics
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia

Hala W. Mahmoud
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom & Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance
Cairo, Egypt

Ivana Marková
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling, Scotland, UK

Giuseppina Marsico
Department of Education Science
University of Salerno
Fisciano, Italy

Mariann Märtsin
School of Social Sciences
Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom

Rebeca Mejía-Arauz
ITESO University
Guadalajara, México

Fathali M. Moghaddam
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Washington DC

Kyoko Murakami
University of Bath
Department of Education
Bath, UK

Behnosh Najafi
Department of Psychology
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

Miki Nishida
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

Cristina Novoa
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

A. Bame Nsamenang
Human Development Resource Centre
Bamenda, Cameroon

Ria O'Sullivan-Lago
Department of Sociology
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland

Seonah Oh
Department of International Studies
Kyoai Gakuen College
Gunma, Japan

Chengnan Pian
School of Sociology
China University of Political Science and Law
Beijing, China

Rebeca Puche-Navarro
Centro de Investigaciones en Psicología Cognición y Cultura
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia

Elaine P. Rabinovich
Catholic University of Salvador
Bahia, Brazil

Susan J. Rasmussen
Department of Anthropology
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Carl Ratner
Institute for Cultural Research and Education
Trinidad, CA

Barbara Rogoff
Department of Psychology
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

João Salgado
Instituto Superior da Maia (ISMAI)
Portugal

Sergio Salvatore
Università del Salento
Department of Educational, Psychological and Teaching Sciences
Lecce, Italy

Tatsuya Sato
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Letters
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

Lívia Mathias Simão
Institute of Psychology
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Noboru Takahashi
Department of School Education
Osaka Kyoiku University
Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan

Kazuko Takeo
Faculty of Science Division 1
Tokyo University of Science
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Eero Tarasti
University of Helsinki
Institute of Art Research
Helsinki, Finland

Iddo Tavory
Department of Sociology
The New School for Social Research
New York, NY

Aaro Toomela
Institute of Psychology
Tallinn University
Tallinn, Estonia

Jaan Valsiner
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
Department of Psychology
Clark University
Worchester, MA

René van der Veer
Leiden University
Department of Education
Leiden, Netherlands

Bert van Oers
Department Theory and Research in Education
Faculty of Psychology and Education
VU University
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Theo Verheggen
Department of Psychology
Open Universiteit Nederland
Heerlen, Netherlands

Brady Wagoner
Department of Communication & Psychology
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark

Zachary Warren
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Meike Watzlawik
Clark University
Department of Psychology
Worchester, MA

Cynthia E. Winston
Department of Psychology
Howard University
Washington, DC

Michael R. Winston
Department of History
Howard University
Washington, DC

Toshiya Yamamoto
School of Human Sciences
Waseda University
Tokorozawa City, Japan

Tania Zittoun
University of Neuchâtel
Institute of psychology and education
Neuchâtel, Switzerland