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The article presents the analysis of the development of the ideas of L.S. Vygotsky's school using the example of the publications in the international scientific journal " Cultural and Historical Psychology " (for the period 2005 through 2016). Over the period from 2005 to the end of 2016, 595 articles of 524 authors from 32 countries have been published in the journal " Cultural and Historical Psychology. " The study of the subjects of the articles published in the journal was held within the framework of the following criteria: scientometric publication indicators; group of authors; themes of the publications ; relevance of the articles for their readers. The research uses the following sources: Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI); repository data of the psychological editions of PsyJournals.ru; report data on the activities of the journal " Cultural and Historical Psychology. " The citation frequency of the journal's publications peaks in 2007, 2009 and 2006. Empirical findings comprise major part of the publications. The most developed areas are the studies of speech and thinking, personality, and communication .
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This session discusses intersections and exchanges between the fields of psychology and the social sciences. In cultural anthropology, for instance, the culture-and-personality school had held a longstanding interest in psychoanalysis and experimental psychology. Debates on "character" and "culture" also proved to be discursive areas in which elements and legacies of biological notions of race, and scientific racism, were negotiated. How did the changing contours of developmentalism and the onset of decolonization feed into these debates? Required readings:
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Challenging dominant positivistic psychology, Vygotsky elaborated cultural historical theory in order to overcome the crisis in psychology. Spinoza’s monism, Hegelian dialectics and Marx’s materialistic dialectics inspired Vygotsky to develop a dialectical understanding of the development of higher mental functions. Dialectics as a way of thinking focuses on the study of each concrete object in its mutual connections with other objects, in its internal contradictions and in its process of change. Vygotsky criticized the understanding of dialectics as a sum of universal principles which can be applied in a direct way in the field of psychology and highlighted the complex relationships between philosophy and concrete scientific disciplines. Rethinking cultural-historical psychology in the light of dialectics offers a creative insight into crucial theoretical questions of psychology such as the interconnection between theory and practice, objectivist- subjectivist distinction, etc. Dialectical underpinnings of cultural-historical theory have been forgotten in mainstream, North-Atlantic interpretations and applications of Vygotsky’s theory.
Recovering the cornerstones of vygotsky’s marxism, 2022
Here we present the first ever complete edition of Lev Vygotsky's classic The Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology translated directly into Spanish from Russian by Alejandro Ariel González. Published with "The Socialist Alteration of Man" and "Thought and Language," it provides an entryway to Vygotsky's work and his "historical-cultural" theory that censorship had kept closed for decades: that of Marxist philosophy and methodology. At the same time, it offers an understanding of the author's anti-capitalist and revolutionary strategic political objectives, directly related to the fight against any dogmatism of any kind.
Cultural Historical Psychology and the Reset of History
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2021
The authors argue that, in the research trajectory of cultural historical psychology, there are nuclear aspects of Vygotsky's theory that have been insufficiently considered. Three of these aspects are herein discussed: the intense and rapid changes to mediational processes and their influence on human psyche; meaningful findings on neuroplasticity that require a neuropsychological approach; and, perhaps most importantly, the need for cultural historical approach, and for psychology at large, to return to the study of the direction and meaning of human life.
Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions
Culture and Psychology, 2018
Psychologists have typically narrated their discipline's history so as to glorify an experimental method, which analyzes the mind independently of cultural and historical factors. In line with Jahoda's sociocultural sensitivity to psychology, this article critically interrogates the plausibility for this vision of psychology as cut off from wider social processes, and offers an alternative based on a re-appropriation of concepts and methods from psychology's past that highlight cultural processes. This approach is illustrated with a study of how people remember history narratives on the basis of cultural resources taken over from social groups they belong to, and which thus embed them within a stream of history. Both psychologists' narratives of their discipline and people's everyday memory of history are shown to be motivated toward the justification of particular visions of social reality.