Relating to Environments - A New Look at Umwelt (Hardcover, New)

A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University Book Summary: Jakob von Uexkull founded Umwelt research with a clear idea - that humans are not qualitatively different than other species. Umwelt, literally "outer-world," is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. Thus the world is a truly subjective place. While von Uexkull's theory has entered into the social sciences via semiotics, and biology via ethology, the authors of these chapters go between and beyond these disciplines to examine everything from cells to spiders to humans and culture. The authors adopt the framework of Umwelt theory to examine unique aspects of the natural world by relating the inner world of the subject and the objects to which that organism attends.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	June 2009
Authors:	Rosemarie Sokol Chang
Series editors:	Jaan Valsiner
Dimensions:	232 x 165 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	236
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-60752-137-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	1-60752-137-7
Barcode:	9781607521372

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