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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2013
      14 November 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139019804
      9780521769389
      9781107562387
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139019804
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 446 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 446 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociology: General Interest, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Sociology
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    Drawing on philosophy, the history of psychology and the natural sciences, this book proposes a new theoretical foundation for the psychology of the life course. It features the study of unique individual life courses in their social and cultural environment, combining the perspectives of developmental and sociocultural psychology, psychotherapy, learning sciences and geronto-psychology. In particular, the book highlights semiotic processes, specific to human development, that allow us to draw upon past experiences, to choose among alternatives and to plan our futures. Imagination is an important outcome of semiotic processes and enables us to deal with daily constraints and transitions, and promotes the transformation of social representation and symbolic systems - giving each person a unique style, or 'melody', of living. The book concludes by questioning the methodology and epistemology of current life course studies.

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    ‘A landmark in the development of developmental science. Dense, rich, personal and abstract by turns, it provides a synthetic foundation for a future, genuinely integrative, developmental science.’

    Michael Cole - Distinguished Professor, Communication, Psychology, and Human Development, University of California, San Diego

    ‘An exceptionally interesting book about the uniqueness of each human being. The volume centres on human development and its trajectories, meaning-making and imagination. This highly original collection of essays will attract cultural scholars and those who search for new ways of doing human and social science.’

    Ivana Markova - University of Stirling

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