Title: The social mind : construction of the idea /
Authors: Valsiner, Jaan; Veer, René van der, 1952-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Intellect Social aspects; Intellect Social aspects History.; Discoveries in science Social aspects.; Inventions Social aspects.
Abstract: "The Social Mind charts the intellectual history of the idea of socially constructed mind through the examination of four key theorists - Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, James Mark Baldwin, and Pierre Janet. All four are widely recognized as seminal, early thinkers, yet there is a paucity of contemporary scholarship on the work of Janet and Baldwin, and there is nothing before this book that connects the work of all four. An analysis of the theories of these scholars and the social climate in which they worked will be invaluable to contemporary social scientists."
Contents: Introduction : how can mind be social and why do we need to mention it? The nature of sociogenesis -- Human psyche as social -- Reductionism and consensus versus construction -- History of construction efforts : toward a theory of intellectual interdependency.