Concrete Human Psychology

Author:   Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138833104


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   02 December 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Concrete Human Psychology


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"Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a ""concrete human psychology,"" a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates the foundation of and develops such a concrete human psychology according to which all higher psychological functions are relations between persons before being functions, and according to which personality is the ensemble of societal relations with others that a person has lived and experienced. Correlated with concern for the concreteness of human life and the psychology that theorizes it is the idea that to live means to change. However, none of the categories we currently have in psychology are categories of change as such. In this work of concrete human psychology, categories are developed on the basis of Vygotsky’s work that are suitable to theorize an ever-changing life, including the language humans use to take control over their conditions and to talk about the conditions in which they live."

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Author:   Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.364kg
ISBN:  

9781138833104


ISBN 10:   113883310
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   02 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction A Social Psychology from First Principles Activity, Thought, Language Thinking and Communicating Language: Wanted Alive From ""Meaning"" and ""Mental Representation"" to Language-Games Speaking, Individual Development, Cultural Development Higher Psychological Functions in and as Societal Relations Double Ascension from Abstract to Concrete From Work to Representation Personality, Identity Documentary Method to Human Learning and Development Epilogue"

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Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria. He studies knowing, learning, and development across the life span in formal and informal educational settings and in the workplace.

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