Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part One: Theory

Chapter One
Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory

• The Influence of Cultural Activities on Psychological Phenomena
• The Influence of Cultural Artifacts on Psychological Phenomena
• The Influence of Cultural Concepts on Psychological Phenomena
• The Dialectical Relationship Among Cultural Activities, Artifacts,
  Concepts, and Psychological Phenomena
• Agency from The Perspective of Activity Theory
• Advantages of Activity Theory for Cultural Psychology

Chapter Two
Individualistic Approaches to Agency: A Critique

• The Individualistic Conception of Agency and Culture
• Critique of the Individualistic View
• The Scientific and Political Value of Conceptions of Agency

Part Two: Method

Chapter Three
Implications of Activity Theory for Cultural-Psychological Research

• The researcher must possess a comprehensive, detailed, profound understanding of social activities, artifacts, and concepts to relate them to psychological phenomena
• To elucidate the specific cultural character of psychological phenomena the researcher must construe them in concrete rather than abstract terms
• The cultural features of psychological phenomena must be gleaned from the phenomena themselves
• Experimental procedures are powerful tools for indicating the association between psychology, activities, artifacts, and concepts
• Qualitative methods are necessary for discerning the cultural character of psychological phenomena
• The qualitative methods which investigate cultural facets of psychological phenomena must be rigorous and systematic
• Cultural features of psychology must be discerned by the cultural psychologist because people are ordinarily not aware of them
• The foregoing principles are applicable to studying cultural aspects of psychological phenomena in all societies

Chapter Four
Interviewing Techniques for Eliciting Cultural-Psychological Information

• The Value of Interviews
• Formulating Interview Questions
• Conducting the Interview

Chapter Five
A Procedure for Analyzing Cultural Themes in Verbal Accounts

• A phenomenological procedure for identifying psychological themes in verbal accounts
• An application of the phenomenological procedure to cultural psychology,
• A cultural analysis of themes
• Objective determination of meaning
• Quantification

Chapter Six
An Empirical Investigation into The Cultural-Psychology of Children's Moral Reasoning

• Theoretical Framework
• Procedure
• Results

References
Index

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