Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Chapter 1 The Myth, and Beyond
- Chapter 2 Language, Cognition, Subjectivity
- Chapter 3 Psychology within Time
- Chapter 4 Sampling Reconsidered
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Chapter 4 - Sampling Reconsidered
Idiographic Science and the Analyses of Personal Life Trajectories
from Part I - Theoretical and methodological issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Chapter 1 The Myth, and Beyond
- Chapter 2 Language, Cognition, Subjectivity
- Chapter 3 Psychology within Time
- Chapter 4 Sampling Reconsidered
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Summary
Cultural psychology requires a theoretical perspective and a rigorous methodology. Focusing on the sampling method, sampling the specimens together with their contextual and historical surroundings is needed. Socio-cultural-historical phenomena in cultural psychology are studied with a different type of universality in focus that is available to researchers through analytic generalization. The basic notion of psychological science needs to be built upon idiographic assumptions. The chapter introduces three studies using the trajectory equifinality model (TEM) model that is the basis for the historically structured sampling (HSS) method of sampling. In the case of each of the three: on adolescents' abortion experience, girls' decisions to start making cosmetics, and infertile wives to abandon to continue receiving reproductive treatments. The chapter outlines the structures of personal life decision histories through an analysis of various bifurcation points.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 82 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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