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How do we understand and explain phenomena in psychology? What does
the concept of "causality" mean when we discuss higher
psychological functions and behavior? Is it possible to generate
"laws" in a psychological and behavioral science-laws that go
beyond statistical regularities, frequencies, and probabilities? An
international group of authors compare and contrast the use of a
causal model in psychology with a newer model-the catalytic model.
The Catalyzing Mind: Beyond Models of Causality proposes an
approach to the qualitative nature of psychological phenomena that
focuses on the psychological significance and meaning of
conditions, contexts, and situations as well as their
sign-mediating processes. Contributors develop, apply, and
criticize the notion of a catalyzing mind in hopes of achieving
conceptual clarity and rigor. Disciplines such as philosophy,
psychology, semiotics and biosemiotics are used for an
interdisciplinary approach to the book. Research topics such as
history and national identity, immigration, and transitions to
adulthood are all brought into a dialogue with the concept of the
catalyzing mind. With a variety of disciplines, theoretical
concepts, and research topics this book is a collective effort at
an approach to move beyond models of causality for explaining and
understanding psychological phenomena.
How do we understand and explain phenomena in psychology? What does
the concept of "causality" mean when we discuss higher
psychological functions and behavior? Is it possible to generate
"laws" in a psychological and behavioral science-laws that go
beyond statistical regularities, frequencies, and probabilities? An
international group of authors compare and contrast the use of a
causal model in psychology with a newer model-the catalytic model.
The Catalyzing Mind: Beyond Models of Causality proposes an
approach to the qualitative nature of psychological phenomena that
focuses on the psychological significance and meaning of
conditions, contexts, and situations as well as their
sign-mediating processes. Contributors develop, apply, and
criticize the notion of a catalyzing mind in hopes of achieving
conceptual clarity and rigor. Disciplines such as philosophy,
psychology, semiotics and biosemiotics are used for an
interdisciplinary approach to the book. Research topics such as
history and national identity, immigration, and transitions to
adulthood are all brought into a dialogue with the concept of the
catalyzing mind. With a variety of disciplines, theoretical
concepts, and research topics this book is a collective effort at
an approach to move beyond models of causality for explaining and
understanding psychological phenomena.
This volume is the firstborn of the Annals of Cultural Psychology -
a yearly edited book series in the field of Cultural Psychology. It
came into being as there is a need for reflection on "where and
what" the discipline needs to further develop, in such a way, the
current frontiers and to foster the elaboration of new fruitful
ideas. The topic chosen for the first volume is perhaps the most
fundamental of all- motherhood. We are all here because at some
unspecifiable time in the past, different women labored hard to
bring each of us into this World. These women were not thinking of
culture, but were just giving birth. Yet by their reproductive
success-and years of worry about our growing up-we are now,
thankfully to them, in a position to discuss the general notion of
motherhood from the angle of cultural psychology. Each person who
is born needs a mother-first the real one, and then possibly a
myriad of symbolic ones-from "my mother" to "mother superior" to
"my motherland". Thus, it is not by coincidence if the first volume
of the series is about motherhood. We the editors feel it is the
topic that links our existence with one of the universals of human
survival as a species. In very general terms what this book aims to
do is to question the ontology of Motherhood in favor of an
ontogenetic approach to Life's Course, where having a child
represents a big transition in a woman's trajectory and where
becoming (or not becoming) mother is heuristically more interesting
than being a mother. We here present a reticulated work that digs
into a cultural phenomenon giving to the readers the clear idea of
making motherhood (and not taking for granted motherhood). By
looking at absences, shadows and ruptures rather than the
normativeness of motherhood, cultural psychology can provide a
theoretical model in explaining the cultural multifaceted nature of
human activity.
This volume is the firstborn of the Annals of Cultural Psychology -
a yearly edited book series in the field of Cultural Psychology. It
came into being as there is a need for reflection on "where and
what" the discipline needs to further develop, in such a way, the
current frontiers and to foster the elaboration of new fruitful
ideas. The topic chosen for the first volume is perhaps the most
fundamental of all- motherhood. We are all here because at some
unspecifiable time in the past, different women labored hard to
bring each of us into this World. These women were not thinking of
culture, but were just giving birth. Yet by their reproductive
success-and years of worry about our growing up-we are now,
thankfully to them, in a position to discuss the general notion of
motherhood from the angle of cultural psychology. Each person who
is born needs a mother-first the real one, and then possibly a
myriad of symbolic ones-from "my mother" to "mother superior" to
"my motherland". Thus, it is not by coincidence if the first volume
of the series is about motherhood. We the editors feel it is the
topic that links our existence with one of the universals of human
survival as a species. In very general terms what this book aims to
do is to question the ontology of Motherhood in favor of an
ontogenetic approach to Life's Course, where having a child
represents a big transition in a woman's trajectory and where
becoming (or not becoming) mother is heuristically more interesting
than being a mother. We here present a reticulated work that digs
into a cultural phenomenon giving to the readers the clear idea of
making motherhood (and not taking for granted motherhood). By
looking at absences, shadows and ruptures rather than the
normativeness of motherhood, cultural psychology can provide a
theoretical model in explaining the cultural multifaceted nature of
human activity.
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