ISBN:
9780415488488
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9781135150907
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9781282443747
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 336 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Online-Ressource Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultural dynamics of social representation
Parallel Title:
Print version Symbolic Transformation : The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society
DDC:
302.201/9
Keywords:
Semiotics Psychological aspects
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Signs and symbols Social aspects
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Culture Semiotic models
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Symbolism (Psychology)
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Semiotik
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Symbol
;
Psychologie
;
Kultur
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Semiotik
;
Symbol
;
Psychologie
;
Kultur
Abstract:
Brings together scholars in the social sciences from around the world, to address the question of how mind and culture are related through symbols
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Series editor's introduction: Presenting new directions in social representing: continuity of social minds; Preface; Introduction: What is a symbol?; Part I Semiotic foundations; Introduction; 1 The intersubjective nature of symbols; 2 Here comes the semiotic species: Reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences; 3 The unconscious as symbol generator: A psychodynamic-semiotic approach to meaning-making; Commentary on Part I: Are we connected to the Matrix machine? Cognition and experience figuring out what reality is
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Transformations of experienceIntroduction; 4 Experiencing symbols; 5 Deep motivation and the work of culture in Christian penitential ecstasy; 6 Remembering with others: The veracity of an experience in the symbol-formation process; Commentary on Part II: Imagination and the movement of meaning; Part III Transformations through the life course; Introduction; 7 How does an object become symbolic?: Rooting semiotic artifacts in dynamic shared experiences; 8 Developing symbolic abilities; 9 Scribble: The development of children's mark-making
Description / Table of Contents:
Commentary on Part III: Some reflections on the development of symbolic activityPart IV Transformations of identity; Introduction; 10 Symbolic group-play and social identity; 11 Symbolic worlds in time/spaces of practice: Identities and transformations; 12 From "stigma" and "coping" to social repositioning: A new perspective on HIV/AIDS, identity, and human rights; 13 Diversity in sex workers' strategies for the protection of social identity: Content, context and contradiction; Commentary on Part IV: Identity and social reality: formations and transformations
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: Opening and closing symbolic transformationIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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