Sociocultural Turn in Psychology

Suzanne R. Kirschner is associate professor of psychology at the College of the Holy Cross and author of The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory, as well as numerous articles on the interconnections between psychological theories and their sociocultural contexts. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Jack Martin is Burnaby Mountain Endowed Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University and coauthor of Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency, Psychology and the Question of Agency, and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint. His research interests are the philosophy and history of psychology, social developmental psychology, and educational psychology, with particular emphasis on the psychology of selfhood and personhood.

• Acknowledgments The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: An Introduction and an Invitation Suzanne R. Kirschner and Jack Martin Part I: Discursive and Constructionist Approaches 1. Public Sources of the Personal Mind: Social Constructionism in Context Rom Harre 2. Inside Our Lives Together: Neo-Wittgensteinian Constructionism John Shotter 3. Beyond the Enlightenment: Relational Being Kenneth J. Gergen 4. Sociocultural Means to Feminist Ends: Discursive and Constructionist Psychologies of Gender Eva Magnusson and Jeanne Marecek Part II: Hermeneutic Approaches 5. Hermeneutics and Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology Frank C. Richardson and Blaine J. Fowers 6. The Space of Selfhood: Culture, Narrative, Identity Mark Freeman 7. Agentive Hermeneutics Jeff Sugarman and Jack Martin Part III: Dialogical Approaches 8. The Dialogical Self as a Minisociety Hubert J. M. Hermans and Joao Salgado 9. Theorizing Cultural Psychology in Transnational Contexts Sunil Bhatia Part IV: Neo-Vygotskian Approaches 10. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Foundational Worldview, Major Principles, and the Relevance of Sociocultural Context Anna Stetsenko and Igor M. Arievitch 11. Vygotsky and Context: Toward a Resolution of Theoretical Disputes Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko List of Contributors Index