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Psychology as the science of human being
the Yokohama manifesto
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This book brings together a group of scholars from around the world who view psychology as the science of human ways of being. Being refers to the process of existing - through construction of the human world – here, rather than to an ontological state. This collection includes work that has the goal to establish the newly developed area of cultural psychology as the science of specifically human ways of existence. It comes as a next step after the "behaviorist turn" that has dominated psychology over most of the 20th century, and like its successor in the form of "cognitivism", kept psychology away from addressing issues of specifically human ways of relating with their worlds. Such linking takes place through intentional human actions: through the creation of complex tools for living, entertainment, and work. Human beings construct tools to make other tools. Human beings invent religious systems, notions of economic rationality and legal systems; they enter into aesthetic enjoyment of various aspects of life in art, music, and literature; they have the capability of inventing national identities that can be summoned to legitimate one's killing of one's neighbors, or being killed oneself. The contributions to this volume focus on the central goal of demonstrating that psychology as a science needs to start from the phenomena of higher psychological functions, and then look at how their lower counterparts are re-organized from above. That kind of investigation is inevitably interdisciplinary - it links psychology with anthropology, philosophy, sociology, history, and developmental biology. Various contributions to this volume are based on the work of Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, Henri Bergson, and on traditions of Ganzheitspsychologie and Gestalt psychology. Psychology as the Science of Human Being is a valuable resource to psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, biologists, and anthropologists alike.
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sciences and arts united through poetic instants
pp.51-66
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_4historical and conceptual intersections
pp.67-83
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_5philosophical links to cultural psychology
pp.87-104
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_6a micro-semiotic analysis of the unfolding of trajectories of experience when performing ethics
pp.105-127
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_7the example of imagination
pp.129-147
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_8pp.149-164
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_9multiverses in a localism aesthetic
pp.165-189
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_10from ontological reductionism to acknowledgment of plurality
pp.193-208
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_11teleology, holism, and valuation
pp.209-223
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_12amerindian psychology in reading today's sociocultural phenomena
pp.245-263
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_14pp.265-276
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_15pp.279-286
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_16an inquiry into the whimsical emergence of children's selves
pp.287-297
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_17metatheoretical and methodological foundations
pp.299-324
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_18regulating relationships
pp.327-335
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_19the process of becoming
pp.337-347
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_20Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Ort: Dordrecht
Year: 2016
Seiten: 375
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-21093-3
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-21094-0
Referenz:
Valsiner Jaan, Marsico Giuseppina, Chaudhary Nandita, Dazzani Virgínia (2016) Psychology as the science of human being: the Yokohama manifesto. Dordrecht, Springer.