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Semiotic Rotations

Author : SunHee Kim Gertz
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607527146
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Rotations written by SunHee Kim Gertz and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.

Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs

Author : David Wilson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331970818X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs written by David Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear. Its actors are adroit at working via the creation of fear to “terror-redevelop” in these historically neglected neighborhoods. The book also discusses the powerful race and class-based politics in Chicago’s blues clubs that resist such change. A “leisure as resistance” framework represents the latest innovative form of opposition to the transformation of these historic sites.

Social Representations in the Social Arena

Author : Annamaria Silvana De Rosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415591198
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Social Representations in the Social Arena written by Annamaria Silvana De Rosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text presents key theoretical issues and extensive empirical research using different theoretical and methodological approaches to consider the value of social representation theory when social representations are examined not only in isolation, but also in context.

The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology

Author : Anton Yasnitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316060454
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology written by Anton Yasnitsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first volume to systematically present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain, and culture. Its main focus is the inseparable unity of the historically evolving human mind, brain, and culture, and the ways to understand it. The contributors are major international experts in the field, and include authors of major works on Lev Vygotsky, direct collaborators and associates of Alexander Luria, and renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks. The Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of psychology, education, humanities and neuroscience.

Dialogic Formations

Author : Marie-Cécile Bertau
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623960398
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Dialogic Formations written by Marie-Cécile Bertau and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained ‘I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of ‘Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010; Hermans & Gieser, 2012), it is precisely the forms of interaction and exchange with others and with the world that determine the course of the self’s development. The volume hence addresses dialogical processes in human interaction from a psychological perspective, bringing together previously separate theoretical traditions about the ‘self’ and about ‘dialogue’ within the innovative framework of Dialogical Self Theory. The book is devoted to developmental questions, and so broaches one of the more difficult and challenging topics for models of a pluralist self: the question of how the dynamics of multiplicity emerge and change over time. This question is explored by addressing ontogenetic questions, directed at the emergence of the dialogical self in early infancy, as well as microgenetic questions, addressed to later developmental dynamics in adulthood. Additionally, development and change in a range of culture-specific settings and practices is also examined, including the practices of mothering, of migration and cross-cultural assimilation, and of ‘doing psychotherapy’.

Lives And Relationships

Author : Yasuhiro Omi
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623964296
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Lives And Relationships written by Yasuhiro Omi and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to cultural psychology the focus on phenomenology of everyday life. Whether it is in the context of education, work, or exploration of life environments, the chapters in this book converge on the need to give attention to complex realities of everyday living. Thus, a description of pre-school organization in Japan would be in its form very different from school organization in Britain or Colombia—yet the realities of human beings acting in social roles are continuous around the world.

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

Author : Robert E. Innis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438488262
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters written by Robert E. Innis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad manifestations, exemplify these luring and repelling qualities and potencies. Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of these encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks. Practicing a kind of "method of rotation" Robert E. Innis breaks down barriers in aesthetic theory and shows their complementary powers. Recurring themes link each chapter, throwing a powerful light on aesthetic encounters by foregrounding such pivotal notions as play, fundedness and the role of memory, the defining quality of an artwork, energies of objects, potencies, rhythm, form, presentational abstraction, medium, symbolization, intuition, role of the body, and the non-argumentative nature of art.

Cosmopolitanism and Place

Author : Jessica Wahman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253030331
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism and Place written by Jessica Wahman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing perspectives about who "we" are, the importance of place and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals, this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences, including the different places we all inhabit and the many places where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores what it means to assert that all people are citizens of the world, everywhere in the world, as well as persons bounded by a universal and shared morality.

Geographies of Privilege

Author : France Winddance Twine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135092974
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Privilege written by France Winddance Twine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in Geographies of Privilege demonstrate how power operates and is activated within local, national, and global networks. Twine and Gardener have put together a collection that analyzes how the centrality of spaces (domestic, institutional, leisure, educational) are central to the production, maintenance and transformation of inequalities. The collected readings show how power--in the form of economic, social, symbolic, and cultural capital--is employed and experienced. The volume’s contributors take the reader to diverse sites, including brothels, blues clubs, dance clubs, elite schools, detention centers, advocacy organizations, and public sidewalks in Canada, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States. Geographies of Privilege is the perfect teaching tool for courses on social problems, race, class and gender in Geography, Sociology and Anthropology.

Temporality

Author : Livia Mathias Simão
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623969697
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Temporality written by Livia Mathias Simão and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comes as part of a broader project the first editor is developing in collaboration with the other two, aiming critically to articulate the central philosophical issue of time and temporality with Cultural Psychology and related areas in its frontier. Similarly to the previous milestone in this effort—Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self, published in this same series, the present one we also invited international cast of authors to bring their perspectives about a possible dialogue between a central philosophical issue and the core subject of their respective research domains. The book interests to researchers, scholars, professionals and students in Psychology and its areas of frontier.

Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Building Virtual Presence

Author : Kapoor, Avinash
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1613501722
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Building Virtual Presence written by Kapoor, Avinash and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful brand building helps sustain relationships with consumers, creating long-term sustainable competitive advantage and protecting businesses from market turbulence and uncertainties. Manufacturing processes can often be duplicated in ways that strongly held attitudes established in consumers’ minds cannot. Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Building Virtual Presence explores the processes involved in managing brands for long-term sustainable competitive advantage. Managers, professionals, and researchers will better understand the importance of consumers’ perceptions in brand management, gain insight into the interface of positioning and branding, learn about the management of brands over time and in digital and virtual worlds, be able to name new products and brand extensions, and discover how marketers develop and apply strategies to position their brands.

Culture and Social Change

Author : Brady Wagoner
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617357596
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Social Change written by Brady Wagoner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 transitions to capitalism, among others contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behavior and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change.

Cultural Dynamics of Women's Lives

Author : Ana Clara S. Bastos
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617355623
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Dynamics of Women's Lives written by Ana Clara S. Bastos and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity. Their “peripheral lives” have “central meaning” (Chaudhary, this volume) in any society – and as such are approached as a primary subject in this book, as the chapters traverse ten different countries on three continents: North America (United States); Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia); Asia (India); and Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Finland, Estonia). Throughout these different places, women's lives are an interesting stage for observing the interaction between biology and culture (e.g. sex vs. gender; pregnancy and childbirth vs. transition to motherhood). The focus on the cultural variability of human experience opens the door for the search of commonalities so needed in psychological theorizing. Here, this search is directed by how cultural models of womanhood (and motherhood) constrain personal experiences, especially through developmental transitions. This book is, ultimately, an opportunity to approach women’s lives from the perspective of the women themselves, particularly making audible and explicit their voices and the axis of logic that structures their world. Undoubtedly, it is a valuable opportunity for women and men interested in understanding and constructing human experience inside better worlds.

Cultures of Care in Aging

Author : Thomas Boll
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 164113139X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Care in Aging written by Thomas Boll and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the impacts of caregiving on the family and the larger social context, as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care. It is evident that care as a real-life phenomenon of our time needs the co-operation of multiple disciplines to better understand, describe, explain and modify phenomena of elder care. Such a need for cross- disciplinary research is even more urgent given the increasing population aging and the impending gaps between demand and supply of care. The present book is dedicated to this approach and provides a first substantive integration of knowledge from geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies by a multi-disciplinary cast of internationally renowned authors. Cultural psychology emerged as a valuable partner of the gerosciences by contributing essentially to a deeper understanding of the relevant issues. Reading of this book provides the reader—researcher or practitioner—with new insights of where the problems of advancing age take our caring tasks in our 21st century societies and it opens many new directions for further work in the field. Finally and above all, this book is also a strong plea for solidarity between generations in family and society in a rapidly changing globalized world.

Memory Practices and Learning

Author : Åsa Mäkitalo
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681236214
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Memory Practices and Learning written by Åsa Mäkitalo and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and learning are seen as mental phenomena and generally studied as brain processes, for example, within various branches of psychology and neuroscience. This book represents a rather different tack, based on sociocultural theory, cultural psychology and dialogism. Authors from many different disciplines and countries study memory and learning as practices adopted by people in different interactional and institutional contexts. Studies range from detailed analyses of situated activities to broad sociohistorical studies of cultural phenomena and collective memories such as national narratives and physical symbols for commemorating events and traditions. By focusing on how people engage in remembering and learning, this book provides a necessary complement to currently popular neuroscientific approaches.

Apprentice in a Changing Trade

Author : Jean-François Perret
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617354139
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Apprentice in a Changing Trade written by Jean-François Perret and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a result of a major research project in Switzerland that brings together the fields of Education and Socio-Cultural Psychology. It is focused on how culture is involved in very concrete educational practices. The reader is invited to follow the research group in a Swiss technical college that trains young people in precision mechanics during a period of major technological change: the arrival of automated manufacturing systems. This transition in the trade is an opportunity to explore the educational and psychological challenges of vocational training from a perspective inspired by activity theory and the consideration of social interactions and semiotic or other technical mediations as crucial to the formation of professional identities and competencies. What are the most appropriate settings for learning? There is no simple answer to this question. What can lead a pupil to become engaged, even if this is within a school, with all the seriousness of a future professional? Under which conditions is an internship in a company genuinely formative? Is it necessary to possess the most recent technologies in order to offer high quality training? What do we know about the relation between doing and knowing in the construction of new competences? How can it be planned and informed to become an object of reflection and make sense in the eyes of the learner? Dealing with such qustions, this study explores new working hypotheses on the manner in which the young experience their training and on the significant role for them of professional specialization.

Qualitative Mathematics for the Social Sciences

Author : Lee Rudolph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136232311
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Mathematics for the Social Sciences written by Lee Rudolph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Lee Rudolph brings together international contributors who combine psychological and mathematical perspectives to analyse how qualitative mathematics can be used to create models of social and psychological processes. Bridging the gap between the fields with an imaginative and stimulating collection of contributed chapters, the volume updates the current research on the subject, which until now has been rather limited, focussing largely on the use of statistics. Qualitative Mathematics for the Social Sciences contains a variety of useful illustrative figures, introducing readers from the social sciences to the rich contribution that modern mathematics has made to our knowledge of logic, structures, and dynamic systems. A beguiling array of conceptual systems, topological models and fractals are discussed which transcend the application of statistics, and bring a fresh perspective to the study of social representations. The wide selection of qualitative mathematical methodologies discussed in this volume will be hugely valuable to higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology, sociology and mathematics. It will also be useful for researchers, academics and professionals from the social sciences who want a firmer grasp on the use of qualitative mathematics.