Mind as action / James V. Wertsch.
In Mind as Action, James V. Wertsch argues that current approaches to social issues have been blinded by the narrow confines of increasing specialization in the social sciences. In response to this "conceptual blindness," he proposes a method of socio-cultural analysis that connects the va...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Summary: | In Mind as Action, James V. Wertsch argues that current approaches to social issues have been blinded by the narrow confines of increasing specialization in the social sciences. In response to this "conceptual blindness," he proposes a method of socio-cultural analysis that connects the various perspectives of the social sciences in an integrated, nonreductive fashion. Wertsch maintains that we can use mediated action, which he defines as the irreducible tension between active agents and cultural tools, as a productive method of explicating the complicated relationships between human action and its manifold cultural, institutional, and historical contexts. Drawing on the ideas of Lev Vygotsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Kenneth Burke, as well as research from various fields, this book traces the implications of mediated action for a sociocultural analysis of the mind, as well as for some of today's most pressing social issues. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199761562 0199761566 9780199846917 019984691X 1306268621 9781306268622 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |