Development as a Social Process
This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internationally renowned figure, whose untimely death left a void in the fields of socio-developmental psychology, cultural psychology and research into social representations.
Duveen's original and comprehensive approach continues to offer fresh insight into core theoretical, methodological and empirical problems in contemporary psychology. In this collection the editors have carefully selected Duveen's most significant papers to demonstrate the innovative nature of his contribution to developmental, social and cultural psychology.
Divided into three sections, the book includes:
Duveen's engagement with Jean Piaget
the role of social life in human development and the making of cognition
social representations and social identities
Introduced with chapters from Serge Moscovici, Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner, this book presents previously unpublished papers, as well as chapters available here in English for the first time. It will be essential reading for those studying high level developmental psychology, educational psychology, social psychology and cultural psychology.
Serge Moscovici is Professor of Social Psychology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, and founder of the European Laboratory of Social Psychology at the Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France.
Sandra Jovchelovitch is Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, UK, where she directs the Masters programme in Social and Cultural Psychology.
Brady Wagoner is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has received a number of prestigious academic awards, including the Sigmund Koch Award, Gates Cambridge Scholarship and the Jefferson Prize.
The series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation is dedicated to bringing the scholarly reader new ways of representing human lives in the contemporary social sciences. It is a part of a new direction cultural psychology that has emerged at the intersection of developmental, dynamic and social psychologies, anthropology, education, and sociology. It aims to provide cutting-edge examinations of global social processes, which for every country are becoming increasingly multi-cultural; the world is becoming one global village, with the corresponding need to know how different parts of that village function. Therefore, social sciences need new ways of considering how to study human lives in their globalizing contexts. The focus of this series is the social representation of people, communities, and last but not least the social sciences themselves.
In this series
Symbolic Transformation: The Mind in Movement through Culture and Society
Edited by Brady Wagoner
Trust and Conflict: Representation, Culture and Dialogue
Edited by Ivana Markov and Alex Gillespie
Social Representations in the Social Arena
Edited by Annamaria Silvana de Rosa
Qualitative Mathematics for the Social Sciences: Mathematical Models for Research on Cultural Dynamics
Edited by Lee Rudolph
Development as a Social Process: Contributions of Gerard Duveen
Edited by Serge Moscovici, Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner
Development as a
Social Process
Contributions of Gerard Duveen
Edited by Serge Moscovici, Sandra
Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner
Through a carefully selected set of essays, the editors have created a marvelous Symposium, conducted by the late Gerald Duveen, where he, Piaget, Moscovici, Vygotsky and Bartlett explore the need for a synthetic approach to the nature of human development. A challenging and rewarding reading experience that taught me a lot.
Professor Michael Cole, Director of Laboratory for Comparative
Human Cognition, University of California San Diego, USA
Gerard Duveen was a remarkable scholar who developed an original conceptual approach linking together developmental, cultural and social psychology. In this volume the editors present Duveen's critical engagement with Piaget's and Moscovici's theories and his original thought in advancing difficult concepts like decentration, social representations, identities, beliefs and doubts, among many others. The volume, building on intellectual scholarship of the highest standard, will be inspirational for researchers in human and social sciences.
Ivana Markova, Emeritus Professor in Psychology, University of Stirling, UK
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Development as a social process : contributions of Gerard Duveen/
[edited by] Serge Moscovici, Sandra Jovchelovitch, Brady Wagoner.
p. cm.(Cultural dynamics of social representation)
1. Developmental psychologySocial aspects. 2. Social psychology. 3. Social representations. 4. Duveen, Gerard. I.
Moscovici, Serge. II. Jovchelovitch, Sandra. III. Wagoner, Brady, 1980
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Contents
Series editor's foreword
JAAN VALSINER
Introduction: The context and development of ideas
SANDRA JOVCHELOVITCH AND BRADY WAGONER
PART I
Piaget: A view from afar
PART II
Development as decentration
PART III
Thinking through social representations
12 Representations, identities, resistance (2001)
Series editor's foreword
The idea that will live: Genetic Social Psychology
This book is an appropriate tribute to a gentle and humble scholar who slowly but systematically synthesised relevant ideas at the intersection of developmental and social psychologies, and whose life ended all too early. It is also a tribute to the kind of scholarship that is needed in psychology thorough, systematic, and deep in theoretical insights. Psychology is in deep crisis in our days precisely because of its success of amassing large quantities of empirical evidence rarely addressing the question