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xi, 488 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-475) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : how can mind be social and why do we need to mention it? The nature of sociogenesis -- Human psyche as social - Reductionism and consensus versus construction -- History of construction efforts : toward a theory of intellectual interdependency. |
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The development of ideas in science : intellectual interdependency and its social framework. Intellectual interdependency as constructive communication -- Realms of intellectual interdependency in science -- Elaboration of the roots of intellectual interdependency -- Cultural systems of knowledge in construction -- Sciences and their self-reflexivity : the role of history -- Intellectual interdependency and "blind spots" in self-presentation -- Summary : multiple dialogues of intellectual interdependency. |
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Social suggestion and mind. Hypnosis, double consciousness, and hysteria -- Paris and Nancy schools of hypnosis -- Social suggestion and crime -- Intercerebral psychology : Tarde and Le Bon -- Conclusions. |
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Pierre Janet's world of tensions. Janet's life course -- Sociogenetic themes in Janet's writings : the beginnings -- French roots of Janet's theory of conduct -- From neuroses to obsessions -- Toward a theory of conduct -- The hierarchic structure of the mind -- Discussion and conclusions. |
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James Mark Baldwin's theoretical heritage. Baldwin and America : development of the thinker in his social context -- Baldwin's intellectual course -- Sociogenetic ideas in Baldwin's work -- Active cognitive processes : social mediation of selectivity -- Play and art : where the "inner" and the "outer" meet -- The invention of "persistent imitation" : the Constructivist breakthrough -- Baldwin's "simple" and "persistent" forms of imitation -- From persistent imitation to "fossilized behavior" and internalization -- Baldwin's conception of the "inner"-"outer" relationships -- Baldwin's role in the development of the idea of "organic selection" -- Methodology for the study of development : "genetic logic" and its implications -- Baldwin's "genetic developmental science" -- Pancalism -- Conclusions : sociogenetic ideas and the logic of development. |
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Pragmatism and the social mind : an American context. The Puritan roots and the tension between individualism and collectivism -- Mutuality of individualism and collectivism -- Idealizing community : an Anglo-American cultural-historic construction -- Summary : the American focus of attention on community and participation -- The role of the philosophy of Josiah Royce within the sociogenetic tradition -- Loyalty to loyalty -- Infinite potential for abstraction : meta-voices -- William James : a stream of ideas leading to Pragmatism -- John Dewey's Pragmatism : dynamic relatedness -- The discussion about emotions -- From the psychologist's fallacy to coordinations -- Pragmatism and its excesses : the Behaviorist manifesto -- American sociology and the social nature of the mind -- The sociogenetic thought of Charles H. Cooley in its context -- Forms of social participation : John Boodin's elaboration of Lévy-Bruhl -- Charles Ellwood's efforts to delineate social psychology from sociology -- Conclusions : American booming and buzzing community orientation and sociogenetic thoughts. |
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George Herbert Mead's development of the self. Mead's life -- Mead's intellectual search -- General conclusion : Mead's legacy. |
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Striving toward the whole : losing development in the course of history. The continental European mindset : the spirit of the whole -- Historical bases for holistic thought -- Fateful and faithful sciences : labeling and its impacts -- Wilhelm Wundt's Völkerpsychologie : history, development, and synthesis -- The basic focus : wholes are not reducible to elements -- The Austrian tradition of holism : Meinong and von Ehrenfels -- The Second Leipzig School : a focus on sociogenetic synthesis -- The notion of Komplexqualität (complex-quality) -- The battlefields of Germany : mutuality of intolerance -- Productive research directions -- Friedrich Sander's theory of Vorgestalten and Aktualgenese -- Microgenetic methodology : looking at the processes of unfolding -- From Aktualgenese as a narrow method to microgenesis as a general perspective -- Changing focus : the drop-out of intermediate forms from attention -- Transformations of microgenesis in North America -- Conclusion : intellectual interdependency and socially constructed forgetting. |
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Vygotsky's world of concepts. Vygotsky's life course -- Theoretical development -- From drama and language to psychology -- Vygotsky and comparative psychology -- Gestalts and developmental psychology -- The cultural-historical theory of higher mental functions -- Concepts in education -- Emotions -- Conclusions. |
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The social person today : continuities and interdependencies. The web -- Two generic models and their synthesis -- Cultural psychology : unity of dialogue, activity, and symbolic thought -- Dialogical and dialectical perspectives -- James Wertsch's dialogicality : voices of the mind in texts -- Activity-based theoretical elaborations -- Guided participation and persons' immersion in activity contexts -- Tools for a new dimension : semiotic mediation within activity -- Symbolic Constructionist perspectives -- Speaking through India : Richard Schweder's intentionality in context -- Symbols in formulation : Bernard Kaplan's genetic dramatism -- Kaplan's genetic dramatism -- A holistic solution to the problem of the person -- Representing socially : human beings and socially constructed dramas -- Antiempiricism in Moscovici's construction -- Social representing : anchoring and objectification -- Social versus collective representations : generativity versus ontology -- Ernst E. Boesch's symbolic action theory -- Conclusions : open and closed nature of social construction of scientific concepts. |
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Conclusion : social mind in action, the socially guided intellectual interdependency in science. Two views on sociogenesis : troubles with the notion of development -- Intellectual interdependency and its social guidance -- The final note : guidance for the sociogenesis of sociogenesis. |
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Intellect -- Social aspects.
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Intellect -- Social aspects -- History.
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Discoveries in science -- Social aspects.
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Inventions -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Veer, René van der, 1952-
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| ISBN |
0521580366 hb |
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9780521580366 hb |
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0521589738 paperback |
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9780521589734 paperback |
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