Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology

Foundations of Cultural Psychology......Page 1
Author’s Preface......Page 2
Jaan Valsiner......Page 4
The family: Ideologically presented unity of a part of the kin group......Page 5
Cultural-historical promotion of affective field construction......Page 6
Internalization and externalization......Page 7
A --- is (or is not) different from--  B......Page 13
Social anthropology, folk psychology, and cultural psychology......Page 14
The question of transfer of culture......Page 20
X is the current norm    X is the current norm......Page 26
Semiotic basis for culture: the legacy of Charles S. Peirce......Page 27
Figure 1.6.   Memorial in a park: symbolic flavoring of the surrounding......Page 30
Figure 1.15.  Autoregulation and heteroregulation of signs......Page 50
Summary: Culture as semiotic regulation system......Page 57
Society as a Dynamic System......Page 67
“Belonging” to society: a real effort at an impossible task......Page 70
Societies and communities......Page 75
Social Structures and their Differentiation......Page 79
Figure 2.5.  Differentiation of community/society structures......Page 84
Why talk? Social control over primary social group......Page 98
Negotiation of asymmetries of power......Page 104
TIME......Page 109
Figure 3.3.  Suggested imperatives from distinctions made......Page 112
Looking at “the others”: multiple ways......Page 114
Beyond the practical distinctions: dualities within the whole......Page 123
Duality in the social sciences: Dialogical models......Page 125
The Dialogical Self (DS) Theory......Page 127
The ego-centered perspective of DS......Page 131
The interviewer brings a higher level semiotic organizer (God's will) into the dialogue. That move immediately challenges the interviewee's meaning complex. This challenge leads to circumvention—overcoming of the strong dislike when ordered by the deity (see also Valsiner, 1999), whose orders could get the person to swing to the opposite extreme—get tattoos all over her body.......Page 143
Quasi-stability of social identity environments......Page 148
The family: ideologically presented unity of a part of the kin group......Page 149
Family as an organized small group......Page 153
Marriages as arranged frameworks......Page 160
Social organization of marriage......Page 163
Forms of marriage......Page 169
Figure 4.1.  Marriage forms as transformable structures......Page 170
The polygynic marriage......Page 172
The polyandrous marriage......Page 188
The conjoint (polygynandrous) marriage......Page 192
The monogamous marriage......Page 197
 Figure 4.3.  Constraining marriage forms to serial monogamy......Page 198
Summary: Minimal communities in action......Page 201
Cultural psychology of pilgrimage......Page 209
The CONSTRUCTION<> DESTRUCTION dialectics......Page 213
Social regulation of boundaries: censorship......Page 218
Rhetorical guiding of human movement......Page 219
Figure 5.9.  Kali stepping on Siva......Page 237
Three logical processes in human reasoning......Page 243
Social control through deductive reasoning......Page 247
The value of inductive knowledge construction......Page 248
Unity of reasoning through abduction......Page 252
  A ==> c  child may hit the cat......Page 253
Freedom for making "the right" choice......Page 261
Conclusions: abduction as process of innovation......Page 262
Affect—feeling fields and emotion categories......Page 269
Universal semantic primitives and the duality of meaning fields......Page 271
Figure 7.3.  The duality field of depressed......Page 272
Affect in boundary crossing......Page 275
Highest semiotic fields: personal “life philosophies”......Page 281
Rituals as promoters of hyper-generalized feeling fields......Page 288
Promotion of different levels of affective sign fields in different societies......Page 292
Cultural framing of affective development......Page 295
Dynamics of affective fields: coordination of person al and collective cultures......Page 297
Generali-       pro-verb anti-verb......Page 301
Internalization and externalization......Page 303
Internalization/ externalization and psychological distancing......Page 306
Structure of the internalization/ externalization process......Page 308
Figure 7.9.  The laminal model of internalization/externalization......Page 310
Conclusion: Functions of the multi-level affective self-regulation......Page 319
Figure 8. 1.  The methodology cycle......Page 327
Figure 8.2. .  C. L. Morgan’s scheme of two inductions: the integrating role of the subjective  (from Morgan, 1894, p. 48)......Page 329
Looking at culturally directed psychological phenomena......Page 331
OF MEANINGS/MEMORIES......Page 334
Systemic Causality......Page 336
What is experiment in the realm of cultural psychology?......Page 341
The conditional-genetic analysis......Page 346
Generality expressed within specificity......Page 350