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Psychology as the Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto

Psychology as the Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto

Valsiner, Jaan
Chaudhary, Nandita
Marsico, Giuseppina

Paperback

Series: Annals of Theoretical Psychology, Book 13

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3319364189
ISBN13: 9783319364186
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 375
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book brings together a group of scholars from around the world who view psychology as the science of human ways of being. Being refers to the process of existing - through construction of the human world - here, rather than to an ontological state. This collection includes work that has the goal to establish the newly developed area of cultural psychology as the science of specifically human ways of existence. It comes as a next step after the behaviorist turn that has dominated psychology over most of the 20th century, and like its successor in the form of cognitivism, kept psychology away from addressing issues of specifically human ways of relating with their worlds. Such linking takes place through intentional human actions: through the creation of complex tools for living, entertainment, and work. Human beings construct tools to make other tools. Human beings invent religious systems, notions of economic rationality and legal systems; they enter into aesthetic enjoyment of various aspects of life in art, music, and literature; they have the capability of inventing national identities that can be summoned to legitimate one's killing of one's neighbors or being killed oneself.

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