A Guided Science: History of Psychology in the Mirror of Its Making

by Jaan Valsiner

Book Overview

That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of science comes from his thinking about processes of development in general--his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412851912
• ISBN13: 9781412851916
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"