The sociocultural turn in psychology: the contextual emergence of mind and self

Acknowledgments

The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: An Introduction and an Invitation / Suzanne R. Kirschner / Jack Martin

Part I. Discursive and Constructionist Approaches

1. Public Sources of the Personal Mind: Social Constructionism in Context / Rom Harré

2. Inside Our Lives Together: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Constructionism / John Shotter

3. Beyond the Enlightenment: Relational Being / Kenneth J. Gergen

4. Sociocultural Means to Feminist Ends: Discursive and Constructionist Psychologies of Gender / Eve Magnusson / Jeanne Marecek

Part II. Hermeneutic Approaches

5. Hermeneutics and Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology / Frank C. Richardson / Blaine J. Fowers

6. The Space of Selfhood: Culture, Narrative, Identity / Mark Freeman

7. Agentive Hermeneutics / Jeff Sugarman / Jack Martin

Part III. Diaological Approaches

8. The Dialogical Self as a Minisociety / Hubert J. M. Hermans / João Salgado

9. Theorizing Cultural Psychology in Transnational Contexts / Sunil Bhatia

Part IV. Neo-Vygotskian Approaches

10. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Foundational Worldview, Major Principles, and the Relevance of Sociocultural Context / Anna Stetsenko / Igor M. Arievitch

11. Vygotsky and Context: Toward a Resolution of Theoretical Disputes / Michael Cole / Natalia Gajdamaschko

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments; The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: An Introduction and an Invitation; {Part I} Discursive and Constructionist Approaches; 1. Public Sources of the Personal Mind: Social Constructionism in Context; 2. Inside Our Lives Together: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Constructionism; 3. Beyond the Enlightenment: Relational Being; 4. Sociocultural Means to Feminist Ends: Discursive and Constructionist Psychologies of Gender; {Part II} Hermeneutic Approaches; 5. Hermeneutics and Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology; 6. The Space of Selfhood: Culture, Narrative, Identity.

7. Agentive Hermeneutics{Part III} Dialogical Approaches; 8. The Dialogical Self as a Minisociety; 9. Theorizing Cultural Psychology in Transnational Contexts; {Part IV} Neo-Vygotskian Approaches; 10. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Foundational Worldview, Major Principles, and the Relevance of Sociocultural Context; 11. Vygotsky and Context: Toward a Resolution of Theoretical Disputes; Contributors; Index.