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2 - Cultural Psychology as the Science of Sensemaking: A Semiotic-cultural Framework for Psychology

from Part I - Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2018

By
Sergio Salvatore
Edited by
Alberto Rosa  and
Jaan Valsiner
Alberto Rosa
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Aalborg University, Denmark
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 35 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Salvatore, S. & Valsiner, J. (2011). Idiographic science as a non-existing object: The importance of the reality of the dynamic system. In Salvatore, S., Valsiner, J., Gennaro, A., & Simon, J. B. Traves (Eds.), Yearbook of Idiographic Science (vol. 3, pp. 7–26). Rome: Firera.Google Scholar

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