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  • The Constructive Mind

    Bartlett's Psychology in Reconstruction

    by Brady Wagoner ...
    The Constructive Mind is an integrative study of the psychologist Frederic Bartlett's (1886–1969) life, work and legacy. Bartlett is most famous for the idea that remembering is constructive and for the concept of schema; for him, 'constructive' meant that human beings are future-oriented and flexibly adaptive to new circumstances. This book shows how his notion of construction is also central to ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Culture and Social Change

    Transforming Society Through the Power of Ideas

    Series series Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development
    This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social ... Read more

    $73.69 CAD

  • Remembering as a Cultural Process

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Psychology
    This brief charts out principles for a cultural psychology of remembering. The idea at its core is a conceptualization of remembering as a constructive process--something that occurs at the intersection of a person and their social-cultural world. To do this, it moves away from the traditional metaphor of memory as storage and develops the alternative metaphor of construction as part of wider ... Read more

    $63.49 CAD

  • Integrating Experiences

    Body and Mind Moving Between Contexts

    Series series Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology
    Cultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have created ourselves. In this perspective, encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. With the increase of globalization and ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Conflict and Change

    Integrating Social and Developmental Psychology

    Edited by Charis Psaltis, Brady Wagoner ...
    Series series Progressive Psychology
    Social and developmental psychology are often viewed as distinct subdisciplines, each with its own theories and methodologies. However, this book seeks to bridge that divide by proposing an integrative framework that considers various levels of analysis, from the individual to the societal. It emphasizes the interplay of fundamental concepts such as intra- and inter-group conflict and change ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Psychology of Radical Social Change

    From Rage to Revolution

    Since 2011 the world has experienced an explosion of popular uprisings that began in the Middle East and quickly spread to other regions. What are the different social-psychological conditions for these events to emerge, what different trajectories do they take, and how are they are represented to the public? To answer these questions, this book applies the latest social psychological theories to ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Historical Reenactment

    New Ways of Experiencing History

    Series Book 44 - Making Sense of History
    Long dismissed as the domain of hobbyists and obsessives, historical reenactment—the dramatization of past events using costumed actors and historical props—has only in recent years attracted serious attention from scholars. Drawing on examples from around the world, Historical Reenactment offers a fascinating, interdisciplinary exploration of this cultural phenomenon. With particular attention to ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Culture as Process

    A Tribute to Jaan Valsiner

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Street Art of Resistance

    Edited by Sarah H. Awad, Brady Wagoner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world. Aesthetic devices such as murals, tags, posters, street performances and caricatures are discussed in terms of how they are employed to occupy urban spaces and present alternative visions of social reality. Based on empirical research, the authors ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality

    Edited by Brady Wagoner, Tania Zittoun ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Memory in the Wild

    Series series Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology
    Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between practices of remembering and the settings in which they are enacted. It advances a novel set of concepts ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD