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In short, Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology 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 lives. This book makes a decisive break from the post-modernist theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. It 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.
Making Oppositions: Dialogical Self and Dualities in Meaning Making
Making Oppositions: Dialogical Self and Dualities in Meaning Making
“… the present is half past and half to come.”
The whole of our psychological system is set up to make distinctions in the field within which we are constantly moving. Our perceptual system operates in the pickup of the information flow of forms-in-movement, in all sense domains such as visual, auditory, tactile, haptic and olfactory. Our attention mechanisms further sieve the perceptual input, making it open for semiotic reconstruction and presentation. The latter sets up our facing for the future, by presentation of the past experience through signs we create in the next moment of our experience.
We experience the world, and create its meaningfulness by way ...
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