Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science
SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science is an extension and topical completion to „IPBS: Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Journal“ expanding some relevant topics in the form of single (or multiple) authored book. The series will have a clearly defined international and interdisciplinary focus hosting works on the interconnection between Cultural Psychology and other Developmental Sciences (biology, sociology, anthropology, etc). The Series aims at integrating knowledge from many fields in a synthesis of general science of Cultural Psychology as a new science of the human being. The series will include books that offer a perspective on the current state of developmental science, addressing contemporary enactments and reflecting on theoretical and empirical directions and providing, also, constructive insights into future pathways.
Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development
In the beginning of the 21st century, a new direction has been emerging at the intersection of developmental and social psychologies, anthropology, education, and sociology – which has become labeled cultural psychology. This fits the vast global social processes of most countries becoming multi-cultural in their social orders, and the World becoming one „global village“ – with the corresponding need to know how different parts of that „village“ function. The knowledge base of developmental psychology and education has become truly inter-disciplinary, and its applications in the vast variety of cultural contexts need to be informed about varieties of cultural expectations. In that inter-disciplinary synthesis, the knowledge base of contemporary developmental psychology and educational sciences is increasingly international. At the same time, any application of the know-how of the social sciences in the areas of education and social life in any society remain local.
Advances in Cultural Psychology creates an international forum for communicating key ideas of methodology, different approaches to family, relationships, schooling and social negotiations of issues of human development. New perspectives – dynamic systems theory, dialogical perspectives on the development of the self, the role of various symbolic resources in human development, and other new topics of inter-disciplinary kind will figure prominently in the book series. The series will include both monographs and edited books – one of each kind per year, starting from 2005.
Cultural Psychology of Education
This book series focuses on the development of new qualitative methodologies for educational psychology and interdisciplinary enrichment in ideas and practices. It publishes key ideas of methodology, different approaches to schooling, family, relationships and social negotiations of issues of educational processes. It presents new perspectives, such as dynamic systems theory, dialogical perspectives on the development of the self within educational contexts, and the role of various symbolic resources in educational processes. The series publishes research rooted in the cultural psychology framework, thus combining the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, education and history. Cultural psychology examines how human experience is organized culturally, through semiotic mediation, symbolic action, accumulation and exchange of inter-subjectively shared representations of the life-space. By taking this approach, the series breaks through the “ontological” conceptualization of education in which processes of education are localized in liminality. In this series, education is understood as goal-oriented personal movement that is at the core of societal change in all its different forms—from kindergarten to vocational school and lifelong learning. It restructures personal lives both inside school and outside the school. The cultural psychology approach to education fits the global processes of most countries becoming multi-cultural in their social orders, reflects the interdisciplinary nature of educational psychology, and informs the applications of educational psychology in a vast variety of cultural contexts.
Annals of Cultural Psychology
The Annals of Cultural Psychology is a serial edited volume to be published yearly. It is developed as a complement to its brother series, Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development. Both series stem from the family of cultural psychology—a discipline that examines how human experience as a whole as well as experiential components—thought, behavior, feelings, etc.—are culturally organized—through semiotic mediation, symbolic action, and/or accumulation and transmission of inter-subjectively shared representations of the life-space. The Advances in Cultural Psychology series publishes edited volumes and monographs that focus on key concepts and perspectives in theory, methodology, and empirical application. The Annals of Cultural Psychology series will complement this by publishing a yearly edited volume that focuses on twofold:
1. Exploring the Frontiers of Cultural Psychology: The first focus is a complete, coherent, and comprehensive exploration of recent works in the field of Cultural Psychology. This exploration will cover: (1) literature published within the year or two previous to the release of the Annals volume, and (2) literature published in the Advances in Cultural Psychology book series (IAP) or the journal Culture & Psychology (SAGE). The exploration of recent works should culminate in a synthesis of new, novel, and innovative ideas, providing a fertile ground upon which will give both direction and magnitude to research in Cultural Psychology with the year or two post-publication of the Annals volume.
2. Furthering the Frontiers of Cultural Psychology: The second focus will function to further the current frontiers in cultural psychology. The Annals of Cultural Psychology will not only explore what has done recently, but will use this as a platform for reflecting on where and on what the discipline needs to develop. Therefore, The Annals of Cultural Psychology will attempt to continue pushing the discipline to reach its next frontier—never allowing the discipline to pick a place to settle, but always striving to reach the next discovery. In order to do this, each volume will contain topical sections with chapters on key issues and ideas in the field. This section will seek to cultivate solutions to continuing issues, and foster the elaboration of fruitful ideas.
Latin American Voices: Integrative Psychology and Humanities
In the last decades, Latin America has been a productive and fertile ground for the advancement of theoretical and empirical elaborations within psychology, social and human sciences. Yet, these contributions have had a hard time to be internationally recognized in its original contribution and in its transformative heuristic power. Latin American Voices – Integrative Psychology and Humanities intends to fill this gap by offering an international forum of scholarly interchanges that deal with psychological and socio-cultural processes from a cultural psychological perspective.
The book series seeks to be a solid theoretically-based, though still empirical, arena of interdisciplinary and international debate, as well as a worldwide scientific platform for communicating key ideas of methodology and different theoretical approaches to relevant issues in psychology and humanities. It will publish books from researchers working in Latin America in the different fields of psychology at interplay with other social and human sciences. Proposals dealing with new perspectives, innovative ideas and new topics of interdisciplinary kind are especially welcomed.
Global South Visions
This book on „Innovative Perspectives in Cultural Psychology and Social Sciences“ series represents the official voice of the Global South Network of Cultural Psychology, a network of innovation from the Global South that involves several universities and research groups in Latin America, Africa and Asia. It aims at coordinating and supporting the creation of new general perspectives in psychology and social sciences. The Network promotes new ideas that deserve to be available for social scientists all over the globe.
The South of the World has, indeed, a solid tradition in research and a lot of positive aspects that should be brought to the attention worldwide. The organization of social life in many societies around the Southern Hemisphere is built on human knowledge that is wider than the premises on which European and North American social sciences are historically built. Yet, this richness of the Global South scientific investigation has had a hard time to be internationally recognized in its original contribution and in its transformative heuristic power. Global South Visions will fill this gap by offering an international forum of scholarly interchanges that deal with psychological and socio-cultural processes from a cultural psychological perspective.
The book series will be a solid theoretically based, though still empirical, arena of interdisciplinary and international debate. It will become a prominent worldwide known scientific platform for communicating key ideas of methodology and different theoretical approaches to relevant issues in psychology and social sciences. New perspectives and new topics of interdisciplinary kind will prominently figure into the series.
Cultural Psychology: An Introduction
The introductory book presents the current state of cultural psychology in terms of theoretical approaches and methods comprehensively. It also demonstrates how deeply it is anchored in various fields of action. Cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims less to objectively and causally explain human behavior and experience, but rather seeks to understand psychological phenomena in their respective sociocultural context. In doing so, it follows a theoretical understanding of humans as actively acting beings. Compared to the prevailing nomothetic-oriented psychology, it emphasizes different theoretical and methodological approaches, particularly highlighting intentionality, meaning structuring, and ultimately the cultural aspects of human existence. Cultural psychology incorporates both hermeneutic approaches from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and ethnology, as well as qualitative methods for studying human behavior and experience.
Innovations in Qualitative Research
The new book series edited by Luca Tateo, Aalborg University (Denmark), promotes innovative and multidisciplinary ways of doing and theorizing qualitative research (in all the field of human and social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, developmental sciences, educational studies, philosophy, etc.). For instance, studies in which social sciences fruitfully interact with humanities and different forms of art to foster innovative knowledge about human experience are really welcome. The book series will mainly promote young and innovative researchers worldwide, particularly focusing on new edge and groundbreaking qualitative studies coming from the new emerging scholars of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Besides, the series will also publish books about „forgotten“ or „overlooked“ methods and constructs in the history of qualitative social sciences.
The book series is addressed to scholars in human and social sciences. The main audience will be all the early stage researchers who want to innovate their qualitative studies. The series is particularly focus to those emerging countries who are not satisfied with the current mainstream of Anglo-Saxon dominated research in social sciences. The books, could also be used by instructors in qualitative methods courses. The rationale of the series is not to address a specific disciplinary field. The added value is exactly that of aiming at transferring experiences from human to social sciences and backward, beyond disciplinary boundaries.