- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- Short Contents
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Personality and Social Psychology: Crossing Boundaries and Integrating Perspectives
- The Intertwined Histories of Personality and Social Psychology
- Perspectives on the PersonRapid Growth and Opportunities for Integration
- Perspectives on the Situation
- Behavior and Behavior Assessment
- Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Context in Person, Person in Context: A Cultural Psychology Approach to Social-Personality Psychology
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Data from Dyads and Groups
- Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology
- Self and IdentityDynamics of Persons and Their Situations
- Motivation and Goal Pursuit: Integration Across the Social/Personality Divide
- Five New Ideas About Emotion and Their Implications for Social-Personality Psychology
- Initial Impressions of Others
- Attitudes and Persuasion
- From Help-Giving to Helping Relations: Belongingness and Independence in Social Interaction
- Antisocial Behavior in Individuals and Groups: An Empathy-Focused Approach
- Personality and Social InteractionInterpenetrating Processes
- Attachment Theory Expanded: A Behavioral Systems Approach
- Person-by-Situation Perspectives on Close Relationships
- Personality Influences on Group ProcessesThe Past, Present, and Future
- Intergroup ProcessesFrom Prejudice to Positive Relations Between Groups
- Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision
- Individual and Societal Well-Being
- Multiculturalism: Cultural, Social, and Personality Processes
- Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span
- Leadership: A Person-in-Situation Perspective
- Work and OrganizationsContextualizing Personality and Social Psychology
- A Person x Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior
- Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Collective Action
- Social Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Personality and Social Psychology
- Personality and Social Psychology: The State of the Union
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter applies a cultural psychology framework to provide a macrosocial account of social-personality psychology. Extending the standard social-psychological emphasis on the importance of context, the first section considers the cultural constitution of personal experience. A history of engagement with particular cultural affordances shapes a person with an associated set of residual tendencies such that what appear to be “personal” dispositions are instead a form of context in person: embodied traces of a person’s engagement with ecological structures of mind that continually reconstitute the person’s habitual ways of being. Extending an emphasis on importance of subjective construal, the second section considers the psychological constitution of cultural worlds. As people act on subjective interpretations, their behavior leaves traces on objective realities to create a form of person in context: everyday constructions of reality that bear the influence of personal activity. In this way, a cultural psychology analysis balances the traditional social psychological emphasis on “the power of the situation” with a restored emphasis on the power of the culturally grounded person as (re)constructor of intentional worlds.
Keywords: action, cultural affordance, ecological, habitus, identity, intentional world, mutual constitution, selfways
Glenn Adams Department of Psychology The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- Short Contents
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Personality and Social Psychology: Crossing Boundaries and Integrating Perspectives
- The Intertwined Histories of Personality and Social Psychology
- Perspectives on the PersonRapid Growth and Opportunities for Integration
- Perspectives on the Situation
- Behavior and Behavior Assessment
- Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Context in Person, Person in Context: A Cultural Psychology Approach to Social-Personality Psychology
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Data from Dyads and Groups
- Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology
- Self and IdentityDynamics of Persons and Their Situations
- Motivation and Goal Pursuit: Integration Across the Social/Personality Divide
- Five New Ideas About Emotion and Their Implications for Social-Personality Psychology
- Initial Impressions of Others
- Attitudes and Persuasion
- From Help-Giving to Helping Relations: Belongingness and Independence in Social Interaction
- Antisocial Behavior in Individuals and Groups: An Empathy-Focused Approach
- Personality and Social InteractionInterpenetrating Processes
- Attachment Theory Expanded: A Behavioral Systems Approach
- Person-by-Situation Perspectives on Close Relationships
- Personality Influences on Group ProcessesThe Past, Present, and Future
- Intergroup ProcessesFrom Prejudice to Positive Relations Between Groups
- Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision
- Individual and Societal Well-Being
- Multiculturalism: Cultural, Social, and Personality Processes
- Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span
- Leadership: A Person-in-Situation Perspective
- Work and OrganizationsContextualizing Personality and Social Psychology
- A Person x Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior
- Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Collective Action
- Social Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Personality and Social Psychology
- Personality and Social Psychology: The State of the Union
- Index