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Symbolic Action Theory and Cultural Psychology

Gustav Jahoda University of Strathclyde Ever since psychology emerged as a separate discipline about a century ago, there have been differing views as to what it is or ought to be. Some, like Ebbinghaus, saw it as a budding natural science, experimental and quantitative. Others, like Dilthey, regard...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boesch, Ernest E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Recent Research in Psychology
Subjects:
Behavioral Sciences And Psychology
Environmental Health
Psychology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory Commentary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Experiencing Culture
  • 2.1 First Initiation
  • 2.2 Denotative and Connotative Meaning
  • 2.3 Goals and Barriers
  • 3 Culture: An Action-Theoretical Definition
  • 3.1 Culture is a Field of Action
  • 3.2 The Contents of the Cultural Field of Action
  • 3.3 Culture Defines Possibilities and Conditions for Action
  • 3.4 Culture is both a Structure and a Process
  • 4 Action-Theoretical Concepts
  • 4.1 Some Introductory Remarks
  • 4.2 The Concept of Action
  • 4.3 The Phases of Action
  • 4.4 Action Relationships
  • 4.5 Action Field and Action Spheres
  • 4.6 Connotations and Symbolism of Action
  • 4.7 “Overt” and “Covert” Action
  • 4.8 Is-versus Should-Values and Ranges of Tolerance
  • 4.9 The Action Potential
  • 4.10 Resistance, Limitations, and Barriers
  • 4.11 Dominant Goals of Action
  • 4.12 The Consciousness of Actions
  • 4.13 Conflict
  • 4.14 Stabilization and Innovation
  • 5 Space and Time
  • 5.1 Space
  • 5.2 Time
  • 6 Objects
  • 6.1 General Aspects of Man-Object Relationships
  • 6.2 Objectivation and Subjectivation
  • 6.3 The Symbolism of Objects
  • 6.4 Instrumentality and Consumptions
  • 6.5 The Aesthetic Object
  • 6.6 The Magical Object
  • 6.7 Order and Disorder: The Constellation of Objects
  • 7 Myths and Fantasms
  • 7.1 Freud and Lévi-Strauss: Variations in Interpretation
  • 7.2 Myths, Mythemes and Myth-Stories
  • 7.3 The Role of Fantasms
  • 7.4 The Impact of Fantasms on Myths: Narcissus
  • 7.5 Examples of Myth-Fantasm-Interactions
  • 8 The I and the Others: Identity and Empathy
  • 8.1 Identity
  • 8.2 Empathy
  • 9 Epilogue

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