The Challenges of Cultural Psychology

Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-67721-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology by reviving its historical legacies and arguing for its social responsibility in future historical developments.

It considers European legacies for cultural psychology as developed by leading figures such as Giambattista Vico, Wilhelm Wundt, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Ernst Cassirer in order to provide insights into a long tradition of thinking from a cultural psychology perspective. The book discusses historical pathways in the rise and repression of cultural psychology and its different historical forms, arguing for the necessity of decolonizing psychology, securing a place for culture in it, and developing an epistemology suited to humankind’s meaning-making processes in mutual shaping of psyche and culture. It provides an integrative and historical understanding of the subject and uses the diversity and heterogeneity within the field to offer critical reflections on its achievements. The thoroughly international group of contributors brings diverse analyses of self, body, emotions, culture, and society and considers the future of cultural psychology.

The volume is a stimulating read for scholars and students of cultural and theoretical psychology and related areas including philosophy, anthropology, and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jovanovic, Gordana

Allolio-Näcke, Lars

Ratner, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Cultural Psychology as a Human Science 1. Cultural Psychology as a Human Science Gordana Jovanovic 2. Natureculture in a Transformative Worldview: Moving beyond the "Interactionist Consensus" Anna Stetsenko Part II: Reviving Historical Legacies for Cultural Psychology 3. Nature Unveiling Herself before Science: The Relationship between Mind and Culture in the Perspective of Giambattista Vico Luca Tateo 4. Völkerpsychologie as Cultural Psychology: The Place of Culture in Wundt’s Psychological Project Saulo de Freitas Araujo 5. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Conception of a Descriptive and Comprehensive Psychology Hans-Ulrich Lessing 6. Ernst Cassirer’s Cultural Theory: Culture as Symbolical Practice Jan Weyand Part III: Vicissitudes of Cultural Psychology 7. Roots and Rise of Cultural Psychology Lars Allolio-Näcke 8. Culture and Personality: A Once and Future Research Program? Christian G. Allesch 9. Bruner’s Lectures: Cultural Psychology in statu nascendi William R. Woodward 10. Ernst E. Boesch and his Symbolic Action Theory Lars Allolio-Näcke 11. The Repression of Cultural Psychology in the History of Psychology Gordana Jovanovic Part IV: Epistemological Challenges of Cultural Psychology12. Contingent Universals as the Expression of a Culture Rom Harré and Jean-Pierre Llored 13. The Place of Culture in Psychology: A Social Constructionist Standpoint Kenneth J. Gergen 14. Light through a Cultural Lens: Decolonizing the History of Psychology and Resilience Wade E. Pickren 15. Narrative Psychology as Cultural Psychology Csaba Pléh 16. Towards Cultural (African) Psychology: Links, Challenges and Possibilities Kopano Ratele Part V: Cultural Psychology of Self, Body, Culture and Society 17. The Self in Japanese Culture from an Embodied Perspective Shogo Tanaka 18. The Moving Body Elisa Krause-Kjær, Jensine I. Nedergaard, & Jaan Valsiner 19. Toward a Vygotskian Analysis of Emotions: Theoretical and Methodological Bases for a Critical Social Psychology Gisele Toassa 20. Aesthetics and Cultural Psychology Christian G. Allesch 21. Let One Person’s Tears not be Infectious: Efik Proverbs as Emotion Regulation Exemplars Vivian Dzokoto, Eyo Mensah, Eunsoo Choi, and Melissa Washington-Nortey 22. Cultural-historical Hyperobjects Cathrine Hasse 23. The Genesis of Macro Cultural Psychology’s Culture Theory from Traditional Cultural Psychology Carl Ratner 24. The Genesis of Macro Cultural Psychology’s Political Orientation from other Approaches to Cultural Psychology Carl Ratner Part VI: Thinking with Cultural Psychology about the Future 25. Thinking with Cultural Psychology about the Future Gordana Jovanovic, Luca Tateo, and Csaba Pléh, and William R. Woodward

Über Autor(innen)

Gordana Jovanovic is Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is committed to psychology understood as a human science closely related to other human sciences and philosophy. Her research is theoretically driven, epistemologically reflected and argues for the necessity of historical foundations and the critical responsibility of psychology.

Lars Allolio-Näcke is manager and scientific coordinator at the Zentralinstitut "Anthropologie der Religion(en)" at Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany. His main interests include philosophy of subjectivity, historical anthropology, cultural psychology, psychology of religion, and philosophy of science.

Carl Ratner has been developing a new theory and methodology for four decades under the title "macro cultural psychology." Ratner emphasizes the political character of culture and psychology and uses it to develop social and psychological enrichment. Ratner has lived in and conducted research in China, India, and Saudi Arabia.