Mind as action / James V. Wertsch.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998Description: xii, 203 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195117530
- 9780195117530
- 150
- BF57. W46 1998
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150 MOR Bodywatching : a field guide to the human species / | 150 SMI Explanation of human behaviour, / | 150 WEI Psychology : Themes and Variations / | 150 WER Mind as action / | 150.1 ABR Should psychology be a science? : pros and cons / | 150.1 MAS The farther reaches of human nature / | 150.15195 BRA SPSS for psychologists / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.
1. The task of sociocultural analysis -- Translation at the crossroads -- Multiple perspectives on human action -- Methodological individualism in the copyright age -- 2. Properties of mediated action -- Mediated action is characterized by an irreducible tension between agent and mediational means -- Mediational means are material -- Mediated action typically has multiple simultaneous goals -- Mediated action is situated in one orf more developmental paths -- Mediational means constrain as well as enable action -- New mediational means transform mediated action -- The relationship of agents toward mediational means can be characterized in terms of mastery: Internalization as mastery -- The relationship of agents toard mediational means can be characterized in terms of appropriation: Internalization as appropriation -- Mediational means are often produced for reasons other than to facilitate mediated action -- Mediational means are associated with power and authority -- Narrative as a cultural tool for representing the past -- Representing the past: Cultural tools and their uses -- Historical texts as cultural tools -- Mastering texts about the origins of the U.S.: Knowing too little -- Mastering texts about the origins of the U.S.: Knowing too much -- Events -- Theme -- The construction of main characters -- Frequency of mention -- Patterns of agency -- Patterns of presupposed presence -- The irreducible tension between cultural tool and agent in generating historical texts -- The mastery and appropriation of narratives as mediational means for representing the past -- 4. Mediated action in social space -- Intersubjectivity and alterity in social interaction -- Intersubjectivity and laterity in studies of intermental -- Functioning -- Harnessing intersubjectivity and alterity in instructional discourse -- Reciprocal teaching as an alternative form of instructional discourse -- 5. Appropriation and resistance -- Appropriation and resistance: The official Soviet history of Estonia -- Tactics of consumption and forms of resistance -- Strategies of consumption and forms of resistance: -- Official and unofficial history -- Summary -- Appropriation and resistance: Cultural stereotypes -- The "Microdynamics" of appropriation and resistance -- Stereotype threat and appropriation -- 6. Mind as mediated action: An Epilogue.
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