The social mind: construction of the idea/
Jaan Valsiner, Rene van der Veer
- New York: Cambridge, 2000.
- 488 p.; 23 cm.
General introduction; 1. Development of ideas in sciences: intellectual interdependency and its social framework; 2. Social suggestion and mind; 3. Pierre Janet's world of tensions; 4. James Mark Baldwin's theoretical heritage; 5. Pragmatism and the social mind: an American context; 6. George Herbert Mead's development of the self; 7. Striving towards the whole: losing development in the course of history; 8. Vygotsky's world of concepts; 9. The social person today: continuities and interdependencies; 10. General conclusion: social mind in action: socially guided intellectual inter dependency in science.
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