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Meaning in Action Constructions, Narratives, and Representations /

are far from genetically ? xing what behavioral preferences they may possess. Instead, learning mechanisms offer a ? exible way of attaining locally important cultural knowledge within temporal windows of opportunity as has been convi- ingly shown by research in language and culture attainment. Simi...

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Other Authors: Sugiman, Toshio. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gergen, Kenneth J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wagner, Wolfgang. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Yamada, Yoko. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Subjects:
Personality.
Social psychology.
Clinical psychology.
Developmental psychology.
Sociology.
Education.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Developmental Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Education, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5
Table of Contents:
  • The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action
  • The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action
  • The Power of Meaning
  • Reflections on the Diversity of Knowledge: Power and Dialogue in Representational Fields
  • Discourse and Representation in the Construction of Witchcraft
  • Culture, Psychotherapy, and the Diasporic Self as Transitoric Identity: A Reply to Social Constructionist and Postmodern Concepts of Narrative Psychotherapy
  • Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity
  • Constructing Trauma and Its Treatment: Knowledge, Power and Resistance
  • Constructing Meaning in Everyday Life
  • Moralities We Live by: Moral Focusing in the Context of Technological Change
  • A Theory of Construction of Norm and Meaning: Osawa’s Theory of Body
  • The Transcendental Nature of Norms: Infants in Residential Nurseries and Child Adoption
  • Using Social Knowledge: A Case Study of a Diarist’s Meaning Making During World War II
  • Narrative and Dialogue
  • Twice-Told-Tales: Small Story Analysis and the Process of Identity Formation
  • Human/Nature Narratives and Popular Films: Big, Bad, Bold, Beneficent, Bountiful, Beautiful and Bereft
  • Opposite and Coexistent Dialogues: Repeated Voices and the Side-by-Side Position of Self and Other
  • Narrative Mode of Thought in Disaster Damage Reduction: A Crossroad for Narrative and Gaming Approaches
  • A Dialogical Perspective of Social Representations of Responsibility
  • Action
  • The Social and the Cultural: Where do They Meet?
  • Moral Responsibility and Social Fiction
  • Social Psychology and Literature: Toward Possible Correspondence
  • Historical Conflict and Resolution between Japan and China: Developing and Applying a Narrative Theory of History and Identity.

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