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  • Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book utilizes cultural psychology as a cultural theory and psychological theory capable of explaining and improving social issues. In particular Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology, and Ratner’s macro-cultural psychology are invoked to explain racism and mitigate it. This explanation of, and solution to, racism are utilized as a framework for analyzing and refining contemporary ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Cultural Psychology

    A Perspective on Psychological Functioning and Social Reform

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality, perception, cognition, memory, sexuality, and mental illness. Examples from interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Psychology’s Contribution to Socio-Cultural, Political, and Individual Emancipation

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book articulates how psychologists can use their theory, research, and intervention to generate insights into emancipatory social change that is necessary to solve social and psychological problems. These include racism, sexism, civil rights, poverty, militarism, education, and politics.Psychology was not developed to directly address social issues. It must therefore be reconceptualised to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Cultural Psychology

    Theory and Method

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book seeks to deepen our understanding of the cultural aspects of human psychology. These are aspects of psychology that originate in, are formed by, reflect, perpetuate, and modify social processes and factors outside the individual mind. My motivation in pursuing cultural psychol ogy is both scientific and political. I believe that construing psychology as a cultural phenomenon is the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Vygotsky’s Sociohistorical Psychology and its Contemporary Applications

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
    The social character of psychological phenomena has never been easy to comprehend. Despite the fact that an intricate set of social relations forms our most intimate thoughts, feelings, and actions, we believe that psychology originates inside our body, in genes, hormones, the brain, and free will. Perhaps this asocial view stems from the alienated nature of most societies which makes individual ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Macro Cultural Psychology

    A Political Philosophy of Mind

    by Carl Ratner ...
    This book articulates a bold, new, systematic theory of psychology, culture, and their interrelation. It explains how macro cultural factors -- social institutions, cultural artifacts, and cultural concepts -- are the cornerstones of society and how they form the origins and characteristics of psychological phenomena. This theory is used to explain the diversity of psychological phenomena such as ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible. But cooperation is not easy in a world dominated by individual, cultural, and national selfish interests. The opposition to cooperation means that cooperation is not natural, but must be instituted through an intellectual and social struggle against countervailing forces. This book discusses issues that ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Cultural Psychology and Qualitative Methodology

    Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Qualitative methodologies in cultural psychology often lack the objective and verifiable character of quantitative analysis. Author Carl Ratner corrects this shortcoming by rigorously systematizing qualitative methods. The book discusses, for example, means of systematizing such subjective reports as interviews, letters, and diaries, which often yield valuable data that is not easily quantified. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Neoliberal Psychology

    by Carl Ratner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This provocative monograph defines the elusive concept of neoliberal psychology, focusing on its form, content, and cultural contexts and establishing it as a core feature of modern society. Its cross-cultural analysis examines the reality of neoliberal psychology in the globalized world, asserting that neoliberalism influences individuals’ sense of self, identity, and—regardless of country of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Genetic Explanations

    Sense and Nonsense

    by Jon Beckwith, Carl F. Cranor, Martha R. Herbert, Mae-Wan Ho, Ruth Hubbard, Eva Jablonka, David S. Jones Ph.D., M.D., Jay Joseph, Evelyn Fox Keller, M. Susan Lindee, David S. Moore, Stuart Newman, Carl Ratner, Shirley Shalev, Carlos Sonnenschein, Ana M. Soto, Stephen L. Talbott, William C. Thompson ...
    Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Vygotsky and Marx

    Toward a Marxist Psychology

    Edited by Carl Ratner, Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva ...
    This important book fills two interrelated gaps in the field of psychology, first by developing a Marxist orientation to psychology and second by explaining how psychological pioneer Lev Vygotsky contributed greatly to this trend. Through outlining core principles in Marxist psychology, the book offers a framework for continuing Vygotsky’s Marxist legacy in new areas of the field.This book first ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Challenges of Cultural Psychology

    Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities

    Edited by Lars Allolio-Näcke, Carl Ratner, Gordana Jovanović ...
    This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology by reviving its historical legacies and arguing for its social responsibility in future ... Read more

    $66.99 USD