Mind in Society
Mind in Society The great Russian psychologist L. S. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in…
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Mind in Society
The great Russian psychologist L. S. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology.
Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English.The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science.
The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the