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Concrete Human Psychology Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)

Concrete Human Psychology By Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)

Concrete Human Psychology by Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)


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In this work of concrete human psychology, categories are developed on the basis of Lev S. Vygotsky's work that are suitable to theorize an ever-changing life

Concrete Human Psychology Summary

Concrete Human Psychology by Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)

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.

About Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. A Social Psychology from First Principles
  3. Activity, Thought, Language
  4. Thinking and Communicating
  5. Language: Wanted Alive
  6. From Meaning and Mental Representation to Language-Games
  7. Speaking, Individual Development, Cultural Development
  8. Higher Psychological Functions in and as Societal Relations
  9. Double Ascension from Abstract to Concrete
  10. From Work to Representation
  11. Personality, Identity
  12. Documentary Method to Human Learning and Development
  13. Epilogue

Additional information

NLS9781138833104
9781138833104
113883310X
Concrete Human Psychology by Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2015-12-02
248
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