The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been
recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat
ironically, his theory of development has never been well
understood in the West. "Mind in Society" should correct much of
this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding
Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of
Vygotsky's important essays, most of which have previously been
unavailable in English.
The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be
glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he
outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development
that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The
mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the
surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter
his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the
handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the
complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual
with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of
mind. In "Mind in Society" Vygotsky applies this theoretical
framework to the development of perception, attention, memory,
language, and play, and he examines its implications for education.
The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew
Vygotsky's relevance to modem psychological thought.
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