Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-422) and index.
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Approaches to culture : semiotic bases for cultural psychology -- Society and community : interdependence of social webs -- Making oppositions : dialogical self and dualities in meaning making -- Minimal communities and their organization : kinship groups, families and marriage forms -- Culture wholes on the move : maintenance and crossing of boundaries in the semiotic universe -- Thinking as a cultural process -- Semiotic fields in action : affective guiding of the internalization/externalization process -- Methodology for cultural psychology : systemic, qualitative and idiographic.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Culture in Minds and Societies makes a decisive break from the post-modernist. theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. and restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from birth to. death, it emphasizes the universality of cultural organization of human minds. and societies. This book presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, . produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment. of culture in human.
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Title
Culture in minds and societies.
International Standard Book Number
0761935827
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cognition and culture.
Culture-- Psychological aspects.
Semiotics-- Methodology.
Social sciences-- Methodology.
Culture.
Psychology-- methods.
Social Sciences-- methods.
Cognition and culture.
Culture-- Psychological aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.