%0 Journal Article
%T AN INTERPRETATION ON CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: SOME THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS
%A Moises Esteban Guitart
%J Suma Psicol¨®gica
%D 2011
%I Elsevier
%X The aim of this paper is to discuss a particular view on cultural psychology focusedon ¡°lived experience¡± and ¡°vital geography¡± terms. It is provided sometheoretical principles and applications of this perspective. According to this view,human development is the result of participation in educational practices throughwhich people appropriate the ¡°signs¡±, ¡°cultural technology¡± or explicit and implicitforms of shared life. It is postulated two assumptions and three features.The assumptions are: the lived experienced should be studied in the context orsituation where it is expressed and constructed, and the ¡°cultural diet¡± is thefood of our psyche (our memories, fears, perceptions, feelings, thoughts). The featuresremind us to consider the human experience as the unit of analysis, bothsituated and distributed, and finally, as a product of participation in particularvital geographies. Applications are outlined in the field of clinical psychology andrehabilitation, socioeducative field and in the field of social psychology of organizations,as examples of practices according to a culturally oriented psychology.Finally, it is emphasized the need to take into account the subjective, social andpolitical sides of culture in order to develop an ecological understanding of mindand human behavior.
%K Cultural psychology
%K mind
%K culture
%K identity
%K lived experience
%K vital geography.
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