- Department of Communication and Psychology
Aalborg University
Kroghstraede 3
DK-9220 Aalborg
Denmark
Brady Wagoner
Aalborg University, Department of Communication & Psychology, Faculty Member
- University of Cambridge, Psychology, Alumnusadd
- Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Anthropology, Human Memory, History Of Psychology, Theoretical Psychology, and 23 moreDialogical Psychology, Psychological Anthropology, Philosophy of Science, Psychology, Social Interaction, Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy, Existentialism, Arab Spring (Arab Revolts), Egyptian Revolution, Graffiti, Collective Memory, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Memory (Cognitive Psychology), Social Representations, Social Change, Social and Collective Memory, Egypt, Visitor studies, Psychology of Communication, Memory, and Serge Moscoviciedit
- I am a cultural psychologist with a background in social and developmental psychology. My research on remembering dr... moreI am a cultural psychologist with a background in social and developmental psychology. My research on remembering draws heavily on the theoretical and methodological thinking of Bartlett and Vygotsky to investigate remembering as a cultural and constructive process. With Eric Jensen, I have also been involved in an empirical research project on children's learning at the zoo. Some of my other related research interests are: narrative, metaphor, the Self, communication, perception, architecture, and the history and philosophy of psychology.
With Alex Gillespie and Gerard Duveen, I have created the F.C. Bartlett Internet Archive, an open access archive funded by the British Academy. http://www.bartlett.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
I am also co-founding editor (with Julian Oldmeadow) of http://www.psychologyandsociety.org/, am associate editor of Culture & Psychology and Peace & Conflict, and am on the editorial boards of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, and Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, among several other journals.
My books include "Symbolic Transformation: The mind in movement through culture and society" (Routledge, 2010), "Dialogicality in Focus: Challenges to theory, method and application" (Nova, 2011), "Culture and Social Change: Transforming society through the power of ideas" (InfoAge, 2012), "Development as a Social Process: Selected Writings of Gerard Duveen" (Routledge, 2013), "Cultural Psychology and Its Future" (Info Age, 2014) and "Integrating Experiences" (Info Age, 2015). I am also currently working on a book titled "The Constructive Mind: Frederic Bartlett's Psychology in Reconstruction" (Cambridge University Press, expected 2016) and "The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Memory" (OUP).edit
“Street Art of Resistance is an international and interdisciplinary examination of the role of street art in social change. It is a definitive collection of essays; it has case studies from Belfast to Egypt, art forms ranging from murals... more
“Street Art of Resistance is an international and interdisciplinary examination of the role of street art in social change. It is a definitive collection of essays; it has case studies from Belfast to Egypt, art forms ranging from
murals to tattoos, and insights that are both theoretical and practical. Street art is a way for supressed voices
to gain representation in the public sphere. These voices combine the power of art to challenge assumptions
with the power of the street to make things public; the result is an opening of possibility that refuses to be
ignored.”
-Alex Gillespie, London School of Economics and Politic Science
murals to tattoos, and insights that are both theoretical and practical. Street art is a way for supressed voices
to gain representation in the public sphere. These voices combine the power of art to challenge assumptions
with the power of the street to make things public; the result is an opening of possibility that refuses to be
ignored.”
-Alex Gillespie, London School of Economics and Politic Science
Research Interests:
The Constructive Mind is an integrative study of the psychologist Frederic Bartlett’s (1886–1969) life, work and legacy. Bartlett is most famous for the idea that remembering is constructive and the concept of schema; for him,... more
The Constructive Mind is an integrative study of the psychologist Frederic Bartlett’s (1886–1969) life, work and legacy. Bartlett is most famous for the idea that remembering is constructive and the concept of schema; for him, ‘constructive’ meant that human beings are future-oriented and flexibly adaptive to new circumstances. This book shows how his notion of construction is also central to understanding social psychology and cultural dynamics, as well as other psychological processes such as perceiving, imagining and thinking. Wagoner contextualises the development of Bartlett’s key ideas in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries. Furthermore, he applies Bartlett’s constructive analysis of cultural transmission in order to chart how his ideas were appropriated and transformed by others that followed. As such this book can also be read as a case study in the continuous reconstruction of ideas in science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Remembering as a Psychological and Social-Cultural Process — Brady Wagoner I. Concept and History of Memory 1. The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural Memory— Merlin Donald 2. From Memory as Archive... more
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Remembering as a Psychological and Social-Cultural Process — Brady Wagoner
I. Concept and History of Memory
1. The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural Memory— Merlin Donald
2. From Memory as Archive to Remembering as Conversation— Jens Brockmeier
3. Discerning the History Inscribed Within: Significant Sites of the Narrative Unconscious —Mark Freeman
II. Cultural Contexts of Remembering
4. The Landscape of Family Memory— Bradd Shore and Sara Kauko
5. Materiality of Memory: The case of the Remembrance Poppy— Kyoko Murakami
6. Approaches to Testimony: Two Current Views and Beyond— Kotaro Takagi and Naohisa Mori
7. Rethinking Function, Self and Culture, in ‘Difficult’ Autobiographical Memories — Steve D. Brown and Paula Reavey
III. Memory through the Life Course
8. The Cultural Construction of Memory in Early Childhood— Katherine Nelson
9. Memory in Life Transitions—Constance de Saint Laurent and Tania Zittoun
10. Memory in Old Age: A life-span perspective— Dieter Ferring
IV. Memory, History and Identity
11. National Memory and Where to Find It— James Wertsch
12. History, Collective Memories or National Memories? How the Representation of the Past is Framed by Master Narratives— Mario Carretero and Floor van Alphen
13. Media and the Dynamics of Memory: From Cultural Paradigms to Transcultural Mediation— Astrid Erll
Introduction: Remembering as a Psychological and Social-Cultural Process — Brady Wagoner
I. Concept and History of Memory
1. The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural Memory— Merlin Donald
2. From Memory as Archive to Remembering as Conversation— Jens Brockmeier
3. Discerning the History Inscribed Within: Significant Sites of the Narrative Unconscious —Mark Freeman
II. Cultural Contexts of Remembering
4. The Landscape of Family Memory— Bradd Shore and Sara Kauko
5. Materiality of Memory: The case of the Remembrance Poppy— Kyoko Murakami
6. Approaches to Testimony: Two Current Views and Beyond— Kotaro Takagi and Naohisa Mori
7. Rethinking Function, Self and Culture, in ‘Difficult’ Autobiographical Memories — Steve D. Brown and Paula Reavey
III. Memory through the Life Course
8. The Cultural Construction of Memory in Early Childhood— Katherine Nelson
9. Memory in Life Transitions—Constance de Saint Laurent and Tania Zittoun
10. Memory in Old Age: A life-span perspective— Dieter Ferring
IV. Memory, History and Identity
11. National Memory and Where to Find It— James Wertsch
12. History, Collective Memories or National Memories? How the Representation of the Past is Framed by Master Narratives— Mario Carretero and Floor van Alphen
13. Media and the Dynamics of Memory: From Cultural Paradigms to Transcultural Mediation— Astrid Erll
Research Interests:
Cultural Psychology offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. In this approach, fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity... more
Cultural Psychology offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. In this approach, fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here-and-now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities. To do this we use social-cultural means (e.g. language, stories, art, images, etc.) to conceive of imaginary scenarios, some of which may become real. Imagination is involved in every situation of our lives, though to different degrees. Sometimes this process can lead to concrete products (e.g., artistic works) that can be picked up and used by others for the purposes of their imagining. Imagination is not seen here as an isolated cognitive faculty but as the means by which people anticipate and constructively move towards an indeterminate future. It is in this process of living forward with the help of imagination that novelty appears and social change becomes possible. This book offers a conceptual history of imagination, an array of theoretical approaches, imagination's use in psychologist's thinking and a number of new research areas. Its aim is to offer a re-enchantment of the concept of imagination and the discipline of psychology more generally.
Research Interests:
Cultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have... more
Cultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have created ourselves. In this perspective, encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. No longer can we ignore questions about how our cultural traditions, practices, beliefs, artifacts and other people constitute how we approach, understand, imagine and remember the world. The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas that advance our understanding of these issues.
This second volume in the series features an address by Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie, which is followed by commentary chapters and their response to them. In their lecture, Zittoun and Gillespie propose a model of the relation between mind and society, specifically the way in which individuals develop and gain agency through society. They theorise and demonstrate a two-way interaction: bodies moving through society accumulate differentiated experiences, which become integrated at the level of mind, enabling psychological movement between experiences, which in turn mediates how people move through society. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal analysis of diaries written by a woman leading up to and through the Second World War. Commentators on further elaborate on the issues of (1) context and history, (2) experience, time and movement, and (3) methodologies for cultural psychology.
This second volume in the series features an address by Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie, which is followed by commentary chapters and their response to them. In their lecture, Zittoun and Gillespie propose a model of the relation between mind and society, specifically the way in which individuals develop and gain agency through society. They theorise and demonstrate a two-way interaction: bodies moving through society accumulate differentiated experiences, which become integrated at the level of mind, enabling psychological movement between experiences, which in turn mediates how people move through society. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal analysis of diaries written by a woman leading up to and through the Second World War. Commentators on further elaborate on the issues of (1) context and history, (2) experience, time and movement, and (3) methodologies for cultural psychology.
Research Interests:
Editor’s Introduction: Cultural Psychology Reborn Brady Wagoner, Nandita Chaudhary and Pernille Hviid Part 1. The Niels Bohr Lecture 1. Cultural Psychology and its Future: Complementarity in a New Key Jaan Valsiner Part 2.... more
Editor’s Introduction: Cultural Psychology Reborn
Brady Wagoner, Nandita Chaudhary and Pernille Hviid
Part 1. The Niels Bohr Lecture
1. Cultural Psychology and its Future: Complementarity in a New Key
Jaan Valsiner
Part 2. Complementarity as Epistemology
2. Complementarity as an epistemology of life
Ivana Marková
3. Onlookers and actors in the drama of existence: Complementarity in cultural psychology and its existential aspects
Svend Brinkmann
4. Affordances, Mereology, Positions and the Possibility of a Cultural Psychology: A little something complementary to some of the themes in Jaan Valsiner’s Address
Rom Harré
Part 3. Methodological Explorations
4. Open complementarity constitutes reality
Luca Tateo and Pina Marisco
5. From describing to reconstructing life trajectories: How the TEA (Trajectory Equafinality Approach) explicates context-dependent human phenomena
Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Yasuda, Mami Kanzaki and Jaan Valsiner
6. Developing idiographic research methodology
Eric Jensen and Brady Wagoner
Part 4. Interpretation, Imagination and Art
7. Valsiner’s horizons towards Bohr’s tradition
Livia Simao
8. On Not Beating One's Wings in the Void: Contexts of Meaning-Making
Robert Innis
9. Kierkegaard, kitchen, complementarity and cultural psychology: A thought experiment
Hroar Klempe
10. Sculpture and Art Installations: Towards a Cultural Psychological Analysis
Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie
Part 5. Reply
Complementarity Transformed: Constructing freedom at the border
Jaan Valsiner
Brady Wagoner, Nandita Chaudhary and Pernille Hviid
Part 1. The Niels Bohr Lecture
1. Cultural Psychology and its Future: Complementarity in a New Key
Jaan Valsiner
Part 2. Complementarity as Epistemology
2. Complementarity as an epistemology of life
Ivana Marková
3. Onlookers and actors in the drama of existence: Complementarity in cultural psychology and its existential aspects
Svend Brinkmann
4. Affordances, Mereology, Positions and the Possibility of a Cultural Psychology: A little something complementary to some of the themes in Jaan Valsiner’s Address
Rom Harré
Part 3. Methodological Explorations
4. Open complementarity constitutes reality
Luca Tateo and Pina Marisco
5. From describing to reconstructing life trajectories: How the TEA (Trajectory Equafinality Approach) explicates context-dependent human phenomena
Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Yasuda, Mami Kanzaki and Jaan Valsiner
6. Developing idiographic research methodology
Eric Jensen and Brady Wagoner
Part 4. Interpretation, Imagination and Art
7. Valsiner’s horizons towards Bohr’s tradition
Livia Simao
8. On Not Beating One's Wings in the Void: Contexts of Meaning-Making
Robert Innis
9. Kierkegaard, kitchen, complementarity and cultural psychology: A thought experiment
Hroar Klempe
10. Sculpture and Art Installations: Towards a Cultural Psychological Analysis
Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie
Part 5. Reply
Complementarity Transformed: Constructing freedom at the border
Jaan Valsiner
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"Table of Contents Series Editor’s introduction Jaan Valsiner Preface Serge Moscovici Introduction: The Context and Development of Ideas Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner PART I. Piaget: A View from Afar (1)... more
"Table of Contents
Series Editor’s introduction
Jaan Valsiner
Preface
Serge Moscovici
Introduction: The Context and Development of Ideas
Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner
PART I.
Piaget: A View from Afar
(1) Children’s Understanding of Friendship (1984)
(2) The Child’s Reconstruction of Economic Life (1988)
(3) Piaget Ethnographer (2000)
(4) Genesis and structure: Piaget and Moscovici (2001)
PART II.
Development as Decentration
(5) Social Life and the Epistemic Subject (1984)
(6) Psychological Development as a Social Process (1997)
(7) Construction, Belief, Doubt (2002)
(8) On Interviews: A conversation with Carol Gilligian (2005)
(9) The Constructive Role of Asymmetries in Social Interaction (2008) - with Charis Psaltis
PART III.
Thinking through Social Representations
(10) The Significance of Social Identities (1986) - with Barbara Lloyd
(11) Social Representations as a Genetic Theory (1990) - with Barbara Lloyd
(12) Representations, Identities, Resistance (2001)
(13) Culture and Social Representations (2007)
(14) Social Actors and Social Groups: A Return to Heterogeneity in Social Psychology (2008)
Biography: The Published Papers of Gerard Duveen
References
"
Series Editor’s introduction
Jaan Valsiner
Preface
Serge Moscovici
Introduction: The Context and Development of Ideas
Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner
PART I.
Piaget: A View from Afar
(1) Children’s Understanding of Friendship (1984)
(2) The Child’s Reconstruction of Economic Life (1988)
(3) Piaget Ethnographer (2000)
(4) Genesis and structure: Piaget and Moscovici (2001)
PART II.
Development as Decentration
(5) Social Life and the Epistemic Subject (1984)
(6) Psychological Development as a Social Process (1997)
(7) Construction, Belief, Doubt (2002)
(8) On Interviews: A conversation with Carol Gilligian (2005)
(9) The Constructive Role of Asymmetries in Social Interaction (2008) - with Charis Psaltis
PART III.
Thinking through Social Representations
(10) The Significance of Social Identities (1986) - with Barbara Lloyd
(11) Social Representations as a Genetic Theory (1990) - with Barbara Lloyd
(12) Representations, Identities, Resistance (2001)
(13) Culture and Social Representations (2007)
(14) Social Actors and Social Groups: A Return to Heterogeneity in Social Psychology (2008)
Biography: The Published Papers of Gerard Duveen
References
"
Research Interests:
Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Changing times, Changing Science Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark), Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Julian Oldmeadow (University of York, UK) (Editors) COLLECTIVE ACTION IN... more
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Changing times, Changing Science
Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark), Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Julian Oldmeadow (University of York, UK) (Editors)
COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CONTEXT
2. The Psychology of Collective Action: Crowds and Change
John Drury (University of Sussex, UK), Steve Reicher (University of St. Andrews, UK) and Clifford Scott (University of Liverpool, UK)
3. Commentary: Crowds may protest, but how do authorities respond?
Flora Cornish (London School of Economics, UK)
4. Change We Can Believe in: The Role of Social Identity, Cognitive Alternatives and Leadership in Group Mobilization and Transformation.
Alex Haslam (Exeter, UK) and Steve Reicher (University of St. Andrews, UK)
5. Commentary: Change Non-Westerners Can Believe in
Fathali Moghaddam (Georgetown University, USA) Zach Warren (Georgetown University, USA) and Rhea Vance-Cheng (Georgetown University, USA)
COMMUNICATING CHANGE
6. Balancing Stability and Change: A Neo-Diffusionist Perspective on Cultural Dynamics
Yoshihisa Kashima (La Trobe University, Australia)
7. Commentary: The Meeting of Ideas: Diffusion, Dialogical Interaction and Social Change
Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark)
8. Metaphor in Discourse about Personal and Social Change
David Ritchie (Portland State University, USA)
9. Commentary: The Earth, Olympus and the Commuter Bus
Carlos Cornejo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
10. Scientific Controversies and the Struggle for Symbolic Power
Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK)
11. Commentary: The Struggle for Scientific Consensus: Communicating Climate Change around COP-15
Rick Holliman (Open University, UK)
SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION
12. Mediating social change in authoritarian and democratic states: Irony, hybridity and corporate censorship
Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK)
13. Commentary: Subversively funny: Critical humor in art
Lisa Sayles (Clark College, USA)
14. Assessing Social Change through Social Capital: Local Leadership and Social-political Change in Bolivia
Martin Mendoza (Tulane, USA)
15. Social Influence and Social Change: States and Strategies of Social Capital
Gordon Sammut (University of Malta, Malta), Eleni Andreouli (LSE, UK), and Mohammad Sartawi (LSE, UK)
16. Changing Fields, Changing Habitusus: Symbolic Transformations in the Field of Public Service in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Anastasia Ryabchuk (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
17. Commentary: Dependent Independence: A Mechanism for Conciliating Determinism and Freedom
Maaris Raudsepp (Tallinn University, Estonia)
19. Conclusion: A Cyclical Model of Social Change
Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark)
1. Introduction: Changing times, Changing Science
Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark), Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Julian Oldmeadow (University of York, UK) (Editors)
COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CONTEXT
2. The Psychology of Collective Action: Crowds and Change
John Drury (University of Sussex, UK), Steve Reicher (University of St. Andrews, UK) and Clifford Scott (University of Liverpool, UK)
3. Commentary: Crowds may protest, but how do authorities respond?
Flora Cornish (London School of Economics, UK)
4. Change We Can Believe in: The Role of Social Identity, Cognitive Alternatives and Leadership in Group Mobilization and Transformation.
Alex Haslam (Exeter, UK) and Steve Reicher (University of St. Andrews, UK)
5. Commentary: Change Non-Westerners Can Believe in
Fathali Moghaddam (Georgetown University, USA) Zach Warren (Georgetown University, USA) and Rhea Vance-Cheng (Georgetown University, USA)
COMMUNICATING CHANGE
6. Balancing Stability and Change: A Neo-Diffusionist Perspective on Cultural Dynamics
Yoshihisa Kashima (La Trobe University, Australia)
7. Commentary: The Meeting of Ideas: Diffusion, Dialogical Interaction and Social Change
Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark)
8. Metaphor in Discourse about Personal and Social Change
David Ritchie (Portland State University, USA)
9. Commentary: The Earth, Olympus and the Commuter Bus
Carlos Cornejo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
10. Scientific Controversies and the Struggle for Symbolic Power
Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK)
11. Commentary: The Struggle for Scientific Consensus: Communicating Climate Change around COP-15
Rick Holliman (Open University, UK)
SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION
12. Mediating social change in authoritarian and democratic states: Irony, hybridity and corporate censorship
Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK)
13. Commentary: Subversively funny: Critical humor in art
Lisa Sayles (Clark College, USA)
14. Assessing Social Change through Social Capital: Local Leadership and Social-political Change in Bolivia
Martin Mendoza (Tulane, USA)
15. Social Influence and Social Change: States and Strategies of Social Capital
Gordon Sammut (University of Malta, Malta), Eleni Andreouli (LSE, UK), and Mohammad Sartawi (LSE, UK)
16. Changing Fields, Changing Habitusus: Symbolic Transformations in the Field of Public Service in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Anastasia Ryabchuk (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
17. Commentary: Dependent Independence: A Mechanism for Conciliating Determinism and Freedom
Maaris Raudsepp (Tallinn University, Estonia)
19. Conclusion: A Cyclical Model of Social Change
Eric Jensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Research Interests: Collective Behavior, Social Change, Social Movements, Social Psychology, Media and Cultural Studies, and 10 moreSocial Representations, Cultural Psychology, Culture, Pierre Bourdieu, Social movements and revolution, Creative City, Mass media, Arab Spring (Arab Revolts), Cultural Industry, and Public Communication. Political Communication
Preface Alex Gillespie (University of Stirling, UK) 1. Introduction: Opening the dialogue Editors Part I. Challenges to Dialogical Science 2. Writing a Dialogical Science: Resisting the Temptations to Nominalize Michael Billig... more
Preface
Alex Gillespie (University of Stirling, UK)
1. Introduction: Opening the dialogue
Editors
Part I. Challenges to Dialogical Science
2. Writing a Dialogical Science: Resisting the Temptations to Nominalize
Michael Billig (Loughborough University, UK)
3. Locating the Dialogical Self within a Cultural Sphere
Amrei Joerchel (University of Vienna, Austria)
4. What is an Utterance?
Andres Haye (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) & Antonia Larraín (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
5. Dialogical Theories at the Boundary
Sanne Akkerman (Utrecht University, Netherlands) & Theo Niessen (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Commentary to Part I
Ivana Marková (University of Stirling, UK)
Commentary to Part I
John Shotter (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Part II. Reflections on Dialogical Methodologies
7. Repairing Ruptures: Multivocality of Analyses
Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark), Alex Gillespie (University of Stirling, UK), Jaan Valsiner (Clark University, USA), Tania Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), João Salgado (Instituto Superior da Maia- ISMAI, Portugal), Livia Simão (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
8. Voices of Graphic Art Images
Marcela Lonchuk (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) & Alberto Rosa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
9. Dialogues about Research
Pernille Hviid (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) & Zachary Beckstead (Clark University, USA)
10. Commentary on Part II
Kyoko Murakami (Bath University, UK)
Pat III. Dialogicality in Social Practices
11. Innovative Moments in Psychotherapy: Dialogical Processes in Developing Narratives
Miguel Goncalves (University of Minho, Portugal) , Carla Cuhna (University of Minho & ISMAI, Portugal) , Anita Santos (University of Minho, Portugal), Marlene Matos (University of Minho, Portugal), Ines Mendes (University of Minho, Portugal), Liliana Meira (University of Minho, Portugal), Antonio Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal), João Batista (UTAD, Portugal), João Salgado (Instituto Superior da Maia- ISMAI, Portugal), Eugénia Fernández (University of Minho, Portugal) , Lynne Angus (York University, Canada), & Leslie Greenberg (York University, Canada)
12. Empathy and the Dialogical Self
Thorsten Gieser (University of Aberdeen, UK) & Hubert Hermans (Radboud University, Netherlands)
13. Gender, Body Image and Positioning in the Dialogical Self
Peter Raggatt (James Cook University, Australia)
14. Dialogicality and the (De)securitization of Self: Globalization, Migration and Multicultural Politics.
Catarina Kinnvall (Lund University, Sweden) & Sarah Scuzzarello (Lund University, Sweden)
15. Commentary to Part III
Jaan Valsiner (Clark University, USA)
16. In place of a conclusion
Editors
Alex Gillespie (University of Stirling, UK)
1. Introduction: Opening the dialogue
Editors
Part I. Challenges to Dialogical Science
2. Writing a Dialogical Science: Resisting the Temptations to Nominalize
Michael Billig (Loughborough University, UK)
3. Locating the Dialogical Self within a Cultural Sphere
Amrei Joerchel (University of Vienna, Austria)
4. What is an Utterance?
Andres Haye (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) & Antonia Larraín (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
5. Dialogical Theories at the Boundary
Sanne Akkerman (Utrecht University, Netherlands) & Theo Niessen (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Commentary to Part I
Ivana Marková (University of Stirling, UK)
Commentary to Part I
John Shotter (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Part II. Reflections on Dialogical Methodologies
7. Repairing Ruptures: Multivocality of Analyses
Brady Wagoner (Aalborg University, Denmark), Alex Gillespie (University of Stirling, UK), Jaan Valsiner (Clark University, USA), Tania Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), João Salgado (Instituto Superior da Maia- ISMAI, Portugal), Livia Simão (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
8. Voices of Graphic Art Images
Marcela Lonchuk (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) & Alberto Rosa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
9. Dialogues about Research
Pernille Hviid (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) & Zachary Beckstead (Clark University, USA)
10. Commentary on Part II
Kyoko Murakami (Bath University, UK)
Pat III. Dialogicality in Social Practices
11. Innovative Moments in Psychotherapy: Dialogical Processes in Developing Narratives
Miguel Goncalves (University of Minho, Portugal) , Carla Cuhna (University of Minho & ISMAI, Portugal) , Anita Santos (University of Minho, Portugal), Marlene Matos (University of Minho, Portugal), Ines Mendes (University of Minho, Portugal), Liliana Meira (University of Minho, Portugal), Antonio Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal), João Batista (UTAD, Portugal), João Salgado (Instituto Superior da Maia- ISMAI, Portugal), Eugénia Fernández (University of Minho, Portugal) , Lynne Angus (York University, Canada), & Leslie Greenberg (York University, Canada)
12. Empathy and the Dialogical Self
Thorsten Gieser (University of Aberdeen, UK) & Hubert Hermans (Radboud University, Netherlands)
13. Gender, Body Image and Positioning in the Dialogical Self
Peter Raggatt (James Cook University, Australia)
14. Dialogicality and the (De)securitization of Self: Globalization, Migration and Multicultural Politics.
Catarina Kinnvall (Lund University, Sweden) & Sarah Scuzzarello (Lund University, Sweden)
15. Commentary to Part III
Jaan Valsiner (Clark University, USA)
16. In place of a conclusion
Editors
""This is a timely and important collection of work discussing various aspects of symbolic transformation. It brings together a variety of authors from different disciplines, including semiotics, anthropology, social, cultural and... more
""This is a timely and important collection of work discussing various aspects of symbolic transformation. It brings together a variety of authors from different disciplines, including semiotics, anthropology, social, cultural and developmental psychology. As a result of this, readers will find a depth and diversity in the chapters that both challenges and enriches their existing ideas about symbols and their importance and functions in our lives, our development and our identities. Wagoner’s introductions, and commentaries by other authors provide a helpful synthesis that does not shy away from the inevitable differences and distinctions between the perspectives in this collection, but rather uses them as a way to further discussion about these highly important issues."
-- Juliet Foster, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
"Contributors to this book present original and scholarly perspectives inviting readers to engage their thoughts with symbols and their manifold transformations throughout life, in daily experience and identities. Fascinating and provocative in discussing complex topics, this volume offers a wide-ranging and integrative set of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the dynamics of mind and culture through symbols and their vicissitudes."
-- Ivana Markova, University of Stirling.
This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols is to understand what it means to be human.
Part I of the book constructs a theoretical foundation in semiotics for thinking about symbols and analyzes their place in speech, images, affect and evolution. Part II explores how our experience is transformed through symbols: why we are moved by a movie or political speech, how bread and wine can taste like Christ’s body and blood, and why our memories are forever changing. Part III focuses on symbols in the human life-course, particularly in connection with play, language and art. And lastly, Part IV explores how identities, such as being a sex-worker or HIV-positive, are constituted in social relationships through society’s symbols.
This broad interdisciplinary synthesis on the problem of symbols is an essential resource for anyone studying culture in mind, including advanced students in psychology, semiotics, anthropology, communications and philosophy."
-- Juliet Foster, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
"Contributors to this book present original and scholarly perspectives inviting readers to engage their thoughts with symbols and their manifold transformations throughout life, in daily experience and identities. Fascinating and provocative in discussing complex topics, this volume offers a wide-ranging and integrative set of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the dynamics of mind and culture through symbols and their vicissitudes."
-- Ivana Markova, University of Stirling.
This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols is to understand what it means to be human.
Part I of the book constructs a theoretical foundation in semiotics for thinking about symbols and analyzes their place in speech, images, affect and evolution. Part II explores how our experience is transformed through symbols: why we are moved by a movie or political speech, how bread and wine can taste like Christ’s body and blood, and why our memories are forever changing. Part III focuses on symbols in the human life-course, particularly in connection with play, language and art. And lastly, Part IV explores how identities, such as being a sex-worker or HIV-positive, are constituted in social relationships through society’s symbols.
This broad interdisciplinary synthesis on the problem of symbols is an essential resource for anyone studying culture in mind, including advanced students in psychology, semiotics, anthropology, communications and philosophy."
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The return to experience in psychology involves recognising the limitations of traditional mono-modal approaches based on verbal data, detached from activity and context. This paper describes our use of subcams to explore how people... more
The return to experience in psychology involves recognising the limitations of traditional mono-modal approaches based on verbal data, detached from activity and context. This paper describes our use of subcams to explore how people experience and engage with the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Participants first walked around the memorial on their own while wearing a subcam and second they commented on their experience while watching the subcam video of the walk. The analysis links visuals with participants’ interpretations of the site and their understandings of the appropriate norms of behaviour there. The paper concludes with a discussion on the usefulness of subcams as a means of exploring multimodal forms of expression and communication in people’s ongoing flow of experience while engaging with the environment.
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Memory is one of the most fundamental mental processes. Neuroscientists study this process by using extremely diverse strategies. Two different approaches aimed at understanding learning and memory were introduced in this symposium. The... more
Memory is one of the most fundamental mental processes. Neuroscientists study this process by using extremely diverse strategies. Two different approaches aimed at understanding learning and memory were introduced in this symposium. The first focuses on the roles played by synaptic plasticity, especially in long-term depression in the cerebellum in motor learning, and its regulatory mechanism. The second approach uses an elegant chick-quail transplantation system on defined brain regions to study how neural populations interact in development to form behaviorally important neural circuits and to elucidate neurobiological correlates of perceptual and motor predispositions.
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Memorials are increasingly used to encourage people to reflect on the past and work through both individual and collective wounds. While much has been written on the history, architectural forms and controversies surrounding memorials,... more
Memorials are increasingly used to encourage people to reflect on the past and work through both individual and collective wounds. While much has been written on the history, architectural forms and controversies surrounding memorials, surprisingly little has been done to explore how visitors experience and appropriate them. This paper aims to analyze how different material aspects of memorial design help to create engaging experiences for visitors. It outlines a matrix of ten interconnected dimensions for comparison: (1) use of the vertical and horizontal axis, (2) figurative and abstract representation, (3) spatial immersion and separation, (4) mobility, (5) multisensory qualities, (6) reflective surfaces, (7) names, (8) place of burial, (9) accommodating ritual, and (10) location and surroundings. With this outline, the paper hopes to provide social scientists and practitioners (e.g., architects, planners, curators, facilitators, guides) with a set of key points for reflection on...
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This chapter focuses on the interrelation between resistance, novelty and social change. We will consider resistance as both a social and individual phenomenon, as a constructive process that articulates continuity and change and as an... more
This chapter focuses on the interrelation between resistance, novelty and social change. We will consider resistance as both a social and individual phenomenon, as a constructive process that articulates continuity and change and as an act oriented towards an imagined future of different communities. In this account, resistance is thus a creative act having its own dynamic and, most of all, aesthetic dimension. In fact, it is one such visibly artistic form of resistance that will be considered here, the case of street art as a tool of social protest and revolution in Egypt. Street art is commonly defined in sharp contrast with high or fine art because of its collective nature, anonymity, its different kind of aesthetics and most of all its disruptive, “anti-social” outcomes. With the use of illustrations, we will argue here that street art is prototypical of a creative form of resistance, situated between revolutionary “artists” and their audiences, which includes both authorities and society at large. Furthermore, strategies of resistance will be shown to develop through time, as opposing social actors respond to one another’s tactics. This tension between actors is generative of new actions and strategies of resistance.
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the basis for a radical temporal alternative to traditional spatial storage theories of memory. Bartlett took remembering out of the head and situated it at the enfolding relation between organism and environment. Through an activity of... more
the basis for a radical temporal alternative to traditional spatial storage theories of memory. Bartlett took remembering out of the head and situated it at the enfolding relation between organism and environment. Through an activity of ‘turning around upon schema’, humans can create ruptures in their seamless flow of activity in an environment and take active control over our mind and behavior. This paper (1) contextualizes Bartlett’s concept of schema within broader theoretical developments of his time; (2) examines its temporal dimensions in relation to embodied action and memory ‘reconstruction’, (3) shows how these temporal dynamics are later abandonedbyearly cognitive ‘schema ’ theories which revert to the metaphor of storage and (4) explores strategies by which we might fruitfully bring schema back into psychology as an embodied, dynamic, temporal, holistic and social concept.
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Cultural Psychology offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. In this approach, fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity... more
Cultural Psychology offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. In this approach, fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here-and-now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities. To do this we use social-cultural means (e.g. language, stories, art, images, etc.) to conceive of imaginary scenarios, some of which may become real. Imagination is involved in every situation of our lives, though to different degrees. Sometimes this process can lead to concrete products (e.g., artistic works) that can be picked up and used by others for the purposes of their imagining. Imagination is not seen here as an isolated cognitive faculty but as the means by which people anticipate and constructively move towards an indeterminate future. It is in this process of living forward with the help of imagination that novelty appears and social change becomes possible. This book offers a conceptual history of imagination, an array of theoretical approaches, imagination's use in psychologist's thinking and a number of new research areas. Its aim is to offer a re-enchantment of the concept of imagination and the discipline of psychology more generally.
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"Book Description: The phenomenon which dialogism addresses is human interaction. It enables us to conceptualise human interaction as intersubjective, symbolic, cultural, transformative and conflictual, in short, as complex. The... more
"Book Description: The phenomenon which dialogism addresses is human interaction. It enables us to conceptualise human interaction as intersubjective, symbolic, cultural, transformative and conflictual, in short, as complex. The complexity of human interaction is evident in all domains of human life, for example, in therapy, education, health intervention, communication, and coordination at all levels. A dialogical approach starts by acknowledging that the social world is perspectival, that people and groups inhabit different social realities. This book stands apart from the proliferation of recent books on dialogism, because rather than applying dialogism to this or that domain, the present volume focuses on dialogicality itself to interrogate the concepts and methods which are taken for granted in the burgeoning literature. (Imprint: Nova Press)"--Publisher website
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&amp;amp;quot;Editor’s Introduction: Cultural Psychology Reborn Brady Wagoner, Nandita Chaudhary and Pernille Hviid Part 1. The Niels Bohr Lecture 1. Cultural Psychology and its Future: Complementarity in a New Key Jaan Valsiner Part... more
&amp;amp;quot;Editor’s Introduction: Cultural Psychology Reborn Brady Wagoner, Nandita Chaudhary and Pernille Hviid Part 1. The Niels Bohr Lecture 1. Cultural Psychology and its Future: Complementarity in a New Key Jaan Valsiner Part 2. Complementarity as Epistemology 2. Complementarity as an epistemology of life Ivana Marková 3. Onlookers and actors in the drama of existence: Complementarity in cultural psychology and its existential aspects Svend Brinkmann 4. Affordances, Mereology, Positions and the Possibility of a Cultural Psychology: A little something complementary to some of the themes in Jaan Valsiner’s Address Rom Harré Part 3. Methodological Explorations 4. Open complementarity constitutes reality Luca Tateo and Pina Marisco 5. From describing to reconstructing life trajectories: How the TEA (Trajectory Equafinality Approach) explicates context-dependent human phenomena Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Yasuda, Mami Kanzaki and Jaan Valsiner 6. Developing idiographic research methodology Eric Jensen and Brady Wagoner Part 4. Interpretation, Imagination and Art 7. Valsiner’s horizons towards Bohr’s tradition Livia Simao 8. On Not Beating One&amp;amp;#x27;s Wings in the Void: Contexts of Meaning-Making Robert Innis 9. Kierkegaard, kitchen, complementarity and cultural psychology: A thought experiment Hroar Klempe 10. Sculpture and Art Installations: Towards a Cultural Psychological Analysis Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie Part 5. Reply Complementarity Transformed: Constructing freedom at the border Jaan Valsiner &amp;amp;quot;
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This book is about the ways in which culture matters to memory. It explores how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, monuments, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a... more
This book is about the ways in which culture matters to memory. It explores how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, monuments, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices. Culture in this account is not a bounded group of people or variable to be manipulated but, rather, the medium through which people live and make meaning of their lives. The focus of analysis becomes one of understanding the mutual constitution of people’s memories and the social–cultural worlds to which they belong. An interdisciplinary team of leading scholars has been brought together in this volume to offer new theoretical models of memory as both a psychological and a social–cultural process. The following themes are explored: the concept of memory and its relation to evolution, neurology, culture, and history; the particular dynamics of different cultural contexts of remembering, such as families, commemorations, g...
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The claim that memory is constructive or reconstructive is no longer controversial in psychology. However, in the last decades it has generally been taken to mean that our memories are inaccurate or distorted. In the locus classicus of... more
The claim that memory is constructive or reconstructive is no longer controversial in psychology. However, in the last decades it has generally been taken to mean that our memories are inaccurate or distorted. In the locus classicus of the constructive memory idea—Bartlett’s Remembering—we find a different meaning: Constructive is there understood as a future-oriented and adaptive characteristic of remembering, which can also lead to accuracy. His notion of constructiveness was even earlier elaborated in relation to group dynamics in his book Psychology and Primitive Culture. How did we get from one meaning of constructive to another? This question is explored through a serial reproduction analysis of experiments purporting to replicate Bartlett’s study. The focus is on the transformation of terminology used to describe qualitative changes introduced by subjects into reproductions. In this history a diversity of terms, coming from different intellectual sources, is gradually subsume...
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This article asks the question how do we interpret the role of metaphors in human life, from the perspective of cultural psychology. Taking inspiration from two articles by Carlos Cornejo, which outline a holistical-developmental theory... more
This article asks the question how do we interpret the role of metaphors in human life, from the perspective of cultural psychology. Taking inspiration from two articles by Carlos Cornejo, which outline a holistical-developmental theory of metaphor in contrast to the dominant cognitive-linguistic paradigm, we provide a case study of metaphor use in relation to organisation change. The case is part of a larger study of structural changes enforced within the Danish religious organisation, Indre Mission. Case extracts from two different interviews with the same employee, in which the same metaphor is used with different meaning, are analysed in relation to context and development (on both micro- and ontogenetic levels). This analysis leads to the conclusion that a metaphor is understood through the particular complex situation in which it is used. In other words, rather than a conceptual interaction, this article proposes seeing metaphor use as a situated act of imagination in which th...
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The present paper argues that crisis talk has been rampant in psychology since its beginning. This is so because it serves a powerful rhetorical function – ‘if we are in crisis we must do x to get out of it’. In fact, being in crisis is... more
The present paper argues that crisis talk has been rampant in psychology since its beginning. This is so because it serves a powerful rhetorical function – ‘if we are in crisis we must do x to get out of it’. In fact, being in crisis is the state of any progressive discipline, where new evidence is brought to light and new ideas are put on offer. This paper then turns to the specific conceptual and methodological issues facing the psychology of creativity and offers some suggestions for moving the sub-discipline forward. It proposes dropping the study of ‘creativity’ as a noun, and instead focusing on the concrete
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Exaggerated claims about inaccuracy and downplaying veracity can also be found in research on memory. This commentary on Jussim's 2012 book analyzes these developments in connection with schema and the misinformation effect's... more
Exaggerated claims about inaccuracy and downplaying veracity can also be found in research on memory. This commentary on Jussim's 2012 book analyzes these developments in connection with schema and the misinformation effect's purported role in memory distortion. It concludes by looking back to the locus classicus of memory distortion (viz. Bartlett 1932), which in fact provides a more nuanced account of inaccuracy.
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"Book Description: The phenomenon which dialogism addresses is human interaction. It enables us to conceptualise human interaction as intersubjective, symbolic, cultural, transformative and conflictual, in short, as complex. The... more
"Book Description: The phenomenon which dialogism addresses is human interaction. It enables us to conceptualise human interaction as intersubjective, symbolic, cultural, transformative and conflictual, in short, as complex. The complexity of human interaction is evident in all domains of human life, for example, in therapy, education, health intervention, communication, and coordination at all levels. A dialogical approach starts by acknowledging that the social world is perspectival, that people and groups inhabit different social realities. This book stands apart from the proliferation of recent books on dialogism, because rather than applying dialogism to this or that domain, the present volume focuses on dialogicality itself to interrogate the concepts and methods which are taken for granted in the burgeoning literature. (Imprint: Nova Press)"--Publisher website
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Creativity and memory are typically considered opposite processes in psychology and contemporary culture. Memory is often conceptualized as simply a register of the past and is evaluated based on accuracy. Conversely, creativity is seen... more
Creativity and memory are typically considered opposite processes in psychology and contemporary culture. Memory is often conceptualized as simply a register of the past and is evaluated based on accuracy. Conversely, creativity is seen as a future-oriented process, typically breaking with the past and generating new and useful products. However, if we are to consider the historical development of these concepts, we will find that, in Ancient Greece, creativity was classified under memory and memory itself was associated with divine inspiration (Mnemosyne was the mother of the nine muses—the liberal arts). The aim of the present chapter is to reconnect these two phenomena by situating them within a broader culture perspective and observing their historical trajectory. Within this long history, the emergence and development of technologies of reproduction (starting from writing, then printing, and up to the digital revolution) have actively shaped both the actual dynamic of memory and creativity and their conceptualization in the humanities and social sciences. While the appearance of printing reinforced an image of memory founded on the idea of reproduction, it simultaneously offered the very antithesis of creativity: exact replication as the ‘non-creative.’ The implications of this divergence will be explored, as well as modern-day possibilities for synthesis through the accelerated development of the digital age. In our historical context, a vision of ‘repetition’ as reconstruction aids sociocultural efforts to theorize memory and creativity as the two sides of the same coin.
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Creativity studies, Models of Creativity & of Creative Processes, Creativity, Cultural Psychology, and 9 moreCulture, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, History Of Psychology, Critical Thinking and Creativity, History of Psychology, Consciousness and Creativity, and Memory Cognitive Psychology
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Psychologists congratulate themselves in telling their discipline&amp;amp;amp;#x27;s history as a linear progression to its present state, as if psychology was purely rational and free from all historical contingency. In so doing we... more
Psychologists congratulate themselves in telling their discipline&amp;amp;amp;#x27;s history as a linear progression to its present state, as if psychology was purely rational and free from all historical contingency. In so doing we close ourselves to past ideas that were unjustly left behind and which can make a significant contribution to psychology today. The word &amp;amp;amp;#x27;experiment&amp;amp;amp;#x27;, for example, has taken on a very narrow meaning in contemporary psychology. We are told that for something to be an experiment there must be an independent and ...
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Series Editor's Introduction Jaan Valsiner Preface Serge Moscovici Introduction: The Context and Development of Ideas Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner Part 1: Piaget: A View from Afar 1. Children's Understanding of... more
Series Editor's Introduction Jaan Valsiner Preface Serge Moscovici Introduction: The Context and Development of Ideas Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner Part 1: Piaget: A View from Afar 1. Children's Understanding of Friendship 2. The Child's Reconstruction of Economic Life 3. Piaget Ethnographer 4. Genesis and Structure: Piaget and Moscovici Part 2: Development as Decentration 5. Social Life and the Epistemic Subject 6. Psychological Development as a Social Process 7. Construction, Belief, Doubt 8. On Interviews: A Conversation with Carol Gilligan 9. The Constructive Role of Asymmetries in Social Interaction Part 3: Thinking through Social Representations 10. The Significance of Social Identities 11. Social Representations as a Genetic Theory 12. Representations, Identities, Resistance 13. Culture and Social Representations 14. Social Actors and Social Groups: A Return to Heterogeneity in Social Psychology
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This chapter explores the conditions and processes through which culture is reconstructed and diffused within and between social groups. It revisits the ideas of early diffusionist anthropology, in particular, the framework developed by... more
This chapter explores the conditions and processes through which culture is reconstructed and diffused within and between social groups. It revisits the ideas of early diffusionist anthropology, in particular, the framework developed by Frederic Bartlett in his unjustly neglected book Psychology and Primitive Culture. In his framework, culture is conceptualized as heterogeneous, systemic and changing patterns of activity mediated by both individual and group processes. Furthermore, any society must be conceptualized in time, existing in a state of tension between stability and change, conservation and construction. A major catalyst for change is ‘culture contact’, whereby new cultural elements are introduced into a social group from outside, simulating constructive efforts to integrate them into its ways of life.
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The concept of schema was advanced by Frederic Bartlett to provide the basis for a radical temporal alternative to traditional spatial storage theories of memory. Bartlett took remembering out of the head and situated it at the enfolding... more
The concept of schema was advanced by Frederic Bartlett to provide the basis for a radical temporal alternative to traditional spatial storage theories of memory. Bartlett took remembering out of the head and situated it at the enfolding relation between organism and environment. Through an activity of “turning around upon schemata,” humans can create ruptures in their seamless flow of activity in an environment and take active control over mind and behavior. This paper contextualizes Bartlett’s concept of schema within broader theoretical developments of his time, examines its temporal dimensions in relation to embodied action and memory “reconstruction,” shows how these temporal dynamics are later abandoned by early cognitive “schema” theories which revert to the metaphor of storage, and explores strategies by which we might fruitfully bring schema back into psychology as an embodied, dynamic, temporal, holistic, and social concept.
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ABSTRACT Conflict is ubiquitous in the social world from the level of interpersonal relations to nations. To make sense of these conflicts, the authors explore the unique social and historically situated perspectives of these different... more
ABSTRACT Conflict is ubiquitous in the social world from the level of interpersonal relations to nations. To make sense of these conflicts, the authors explore the unique social and historically situated perspectives of these different social groups and how they guide the action of their members toward others. This is one of the basic starting places of sociocultural psychology, which informs my own perspective on peace and conflict. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)
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Werner and Kaplan’s Symbol formation was published 50 years ago but its insights have yet to be adequately explored by psychology and other social sciences. This special issue aims to revisit this seminal work in search of concepts to... more
Werner and Kaplan’s Symbol formation was published 50 years ago but its insights have yet to be adequately explored by psychology and other social sciences. This special issue aims to revisit this seminal work in search of concepts to work on key issues facing us today. This introductory article begins with a brief outline and contextualization of the book as well as of the articles that this special issue comprises. The first two articles were written by contributors who were part of the Werner era at Clark University. They explore the key concepts of the organismic and development, and situate them vis-à-vis other research at Clark and in American psychology more generally. The second two articles analyse Werner and Kaplan’s notions of ‘distancing’ and ‘physiognomic metaphor’, showing their roots in naturphilosophie and comparing them with contemporary theories. The last four articles apply the organismic-developmental approach to fields only touched in Symbol formation, such as m...
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Zoos attract hundreds of millions of visitors every year worldwide. As such they are key institutions for publics to engage with live animals and environmental education, and to support conservation. But there is also a longstanding... more
Zoos attract hundreds of millions of visitors every year worldwide. As such they are key institutions for publics to engage with live animals and environmental education, and to support conservation. But there is also a longstanding social representation of zoos as primarily serving a “spectacle” function—as the earliest zoos unashamedly did. Within the context of growing bioethical concern about holding animals in captivity, zoos have emphasized three main functions: education, research and conservation—although, in ...
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