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Cultural Psychology of recursive Processes (Hardcover)
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Cultural Psychology of recursive Processes (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Cultural Psychology
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Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity,
often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept
for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a
fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often
incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics,
this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the
foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the
diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive
processes are at the core of complex social and psychological
processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning,
re-examining, reflecting and circling back, and these processes
allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from
the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while
being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to
celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion
of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of
social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these
ideas have currently thrived. Cultural Psychology of Recursivity
shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity,
self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity),
complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and
provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and
elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique
take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of
investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive
processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual,
imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative
practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists,
and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate
level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching
occasions.
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