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Tables of Contents for Cultural Psychology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part 1: Theory
1
102
Introduction
3
6
Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory
9
66
The Influence of Cultural Activities on Psychological Phenomena
12
19
The Influence of Cultural Artifacts on Psychological Phenomena
31
3
The Influence of Cultural Concepts on Psychological Phenomena
34
20
The Dialectical Relationship Among Cultural Activities, Artifacts, Concepts, and Psychological Phenomena
54
5
Agency from the Perspective of Activity Theory
59
8
Advantages of Activity Theory for Cultural Psychology
67
4
Notes
71
4
Individualistic Approaches to Agency: A Critique
75
28
The Individualistic Conception of Agency and Culture
75
7
Critique of the Individualistic View
82
13
The Scientific and Political Value of Conceptions of Agency
95
4
Notes
99
4
Part 2: Method
103
102
Implications of Activity Theory for Cultural Psychological Research
105
40
The Researcher Must Possess a Comprehensive, Detailed, Profound Understanding of Social Activities, Artifacts, and Concepts to Relate Them to Psychological Phenomena
108
4
To Elucidate the Specific Cultural Character of Psychological Phenomena the Researcher Must Construe Them in Concrete Rather than Abstract Terms
112
1
The Cultural Features of Psychological Phenomena Must Be Gleaned from Investigating the Phenomena Themselves
113
3
Experimental Procedures Are Powerful Tools for Indicating the Association Between Psychology, Activities, Artifacts, and Concepts
116
5
Qualitative Methods Are Necessary for Discerning the Cultural Character of Psychological Phenomena
121
8
The Qualitative Methods that Investigate Cultural Facets of Psychological Phenomena Must Be Rigorous and Systematic in Order to Draw Warranted Conclusions
129
6
Cultural Features of Psychology Must Be Discerned by the Cultural Psychologist Through Skillful, Probing Analysis Because People Are Ordinarily Not Aware of Them
135
3
The Foregoing Principles of Cultural Psychological Research Are Applicable to Studying Cultural Aspects of Psychological Phenomena in All Societies
138
2
Notes
140
5
Interviewing Techniques for Eliciting Cultural-Psychological Information
145
22
The Value of Interviews
145
8
Formulating Interview Questions
153
5
Conducting the Interview
158
9
A Procedure for Analyzing Cultural Themes in Verbal Accounts
167
20
A Phenomenological Procedure for Identifying Psychological Themes in Verbal Accounts
168
4
An Application of the Phenomenological Procedure to Cultural Psychology
172
5
A Cultural Analysis of Psychological Themes
177
2
Objective Determination of Meanings
179
4
Quantification
183
2
Notes
185
2
An Empirical Investigation into the Cultural Psychology of Children's Moral Reasoning
187
18
Theoretical Framework
187
7
Procedure
194
7
Results
201
2
Notes
203
2
References
205
10
Index
215
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