Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- Part II Action, Objects, Artifacts, and Meaning
- 6 Spirited Psyche Creates Artifacts: Semiotic Dynamics of Experience in the Shaping of Objects, Agency, and Intentional Worlds
- 7 Making Social Objects: The Theory of Social Representation
- 8 Beyond the Distinction between Tool and Sign: Objects and Artifacts in Human Activity
- 9 The Sociocultural Study of Creative Action
- 10 Symbolic Resources and Imagination in the Dynamics of Life
- Part III The Agent Rises a Reflective Self: Education and Development
- Part IV Institutional Artifacts for Value
- Part V Aesthetic and Religious Experiences
- Part VI Practices and Artifacts for Imagining Identity
- Part VII Experiences Make the Person
- General Conclusion
- Index
- References
7 - Making Social Objects: The Theory of Social Representation
from Part II - Action, Objects, Artifacts, and Meaning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- Part II Action, Objects, Artifacts, and Meaning
- 6 Spirited Psyche Creates Artifacts: Semiotic Dynamics of Experience in the Shaping of Objects, Agency, and Intentional Worlds
- 7 Making Social Objects: The Theory of Social Representation
- 8 Beyond the Distinction between Tool and Sign: Objects and Artifacts in Human Activity
- 9 The Sociocultural Study of Creative Action
- 10 Symbolic Resources and Imagination in the Dynamics of Life
- Part III The Agent Rises a Reflective Self: Education and Development
- Part IV Institutional Artifacts for Value
- Part V Aesthetic and Religious Experiences
- Part VI Practices and Artifacts for Imagining Identity
- Part VII Experiences Make the Person
- General Conclusion
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 130 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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