J V Wertsch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 12604 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J V Wertsch |
| NOMBRES | J V |
| APELLIDO | Wertsch |
| FIRMA | WERTSCH J V |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9477-0708 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 293 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Russian future thinking during its war in Ukraine
This article examines Russian national future thinking during the war in Ukraine. It views future thinking as a form of mediated action that is dependent on narrative tools and explores the structure and function of various types of narratives that play a role, including schematic narrative templates and national narrative projects. The first section of the article goes into conceptual issues on plot, the sense of an ending and other features of …
Nuclear fear and anxiety
Anxiety about nuclear war emerged after the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan and has risen and fallen over the following decades. It is grounded in future thinking shaped by narrative form and function in policy discussions and especially in film and television. These media have repeatedly drawn on three basic narrative templates organised around three different endings: destruction, judgement, and renewal; human extinction; and permanent and irreve…
Memory and anxiety
Collective anxiety in media, mind, and memoryThis editorial launches the Memory, Mind & Media special collection on 'Memory and Anxiety'.We employ a broadly sociocultural approach to explore anxiety as a collective phenomenon and to situate it in the broader literature on memory and future thinking.We argue that anxiety is more than the collectively reported feelings of worry or a disorder that is tied to an individual's mental and bodily states.…
Impressions of Alexander Romanovich Luria
Themes for future research on memory, mind and media
We describe three areas of inquiry that we foresee as being important in future studies of collective memory, mind, and media. The first is the power of narratives, usually provided by collectives, which can be explicit and conscious or implicit and unconscious. A second important theme during this period of populism and nationalism is the study of the self-centredness (or egocentricity) of groups, especially nations believing their past is speci…
How Nations Remember
Different Memories, Different Worlds -- A Conceptual Tool Kit -- National Narratives -- Selectivity and Emplotment in National Memory -- Narrative Dialogism in National Memory -- Managing National Memory
Ragnar Rommetveit
Over a long professional lifetime, Ragnar Rommetveit contributed to numerous disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting discussions in global social science and his own unending quest to understand social and individual life. His remarkable career and impact can be outlined in terms of four main phases. The first involved general social psychology in the 1950s and was reflected in Social Norms and Roles (1953/1955). In the seco…
Cosmopolitan patriot
Professor Peeter Tulviste (1945–2017) was a leading figure in the study of psychology and the history of psychology, whose life and scholarship went through several unexpected phases. Building on the writings of L.S. Vygotsky, A.R. Luria, and others, he was driven by a quest to understand others’ worldviews. Over his lifetime he was led him to see how such views can differ in ways that extend even beyond theoretical claims about how human mental …
Life lessons from Vladimir Petrovich Zinchenko
The professional life of Vladimir Petrovich Zinchenko (1931–2014) is presented from an American perspective. Three themes are highlighted: a) an enduring quest to find some degree of freedom in human action, including his own, b) a deep appreciation of his intellectual genealogy, and c) an abiding generosity toward students and colleagues. Particular episodes of Zinchenko’s life as a scholar are examined from this perspective, with special emphas…
Memory
Memory has been an important topic in social science, including the concept of collective memory that originates in the Durkheimian tradition. Psychological research has contributed valuable knowledge about individual remembering, highlighting the fallibility of memory and the impacts of social factors. For ethnographers, memory is an integral part of their toolkit as well as the topic of many interviews. Many anthropological approaches are focus…
Human Development and the Creative Potential of Culture (Roundtable of the methodological seminar supervised by V.V. Rubtsov and B.D. Elkonin)
On May 25, 2018 the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education hosted a methodological seminar “Human Development and the Creative Potential of Culture” (supervised by V.V. Rubtsov and B.D. Elkonin) that was dedicated to the 80th birthday of the renowned American psychologist professor Michael Cole, the disciple of A.R. Luria and the successor of the cultural-historical and activity approaches in psychology. Michael Cole has and continue…
Greetings from Our Foreign Colleagues
Путем вычисления такого индекса, как «размер эффекта» по J. Cohen, определена сила влияния коморбидной патологии (развитие ишемической кардиомиопатии на фоне нейролептической) на морфометрические параметры сердца, характеризующие его состояние на разных уровнях организации. Установлено, что практически все изученные показатели оказываются чувствительными, хотя и в различной степени, к указанному неблагоприятному воздействию. By calculation of suc…
National Memory and Where to Find It
National memory is a special form of memory in general and of collective memory in particular. Even in an age of globalization, modern states devote massive resources to promulgating official accounts of their past that support national identities, including illusions of destiny, which can be a starting point for conflict. This chapter asks, “What is national memory?” and “Where can we find it?” It may seem natural to pose these questions in this…
Beyond the archival model of memory and the affordances and constraints of narratives
In his ‘After the Archive’ article, Brockmeier outlines limitations of the ‘archival model’ of memory, taking into account several dimensions of the burgeoning field of memory studies. In responding to the weaknesses he cites, he introduces ideas about narrative and its role in shaping human thought and memory. While narrative brings important assets to Brockmeier’s effort, it also carries conceptual baggage that is examined here. In particular, …
Contents, Vol. 38, 1995
Contents, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1996
Contents, Vol. 37, 1994
Commentary
Commentaries| January 20 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health James V. Wertsch James V. Wertsch Clark University, Worcester, Mass., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1995) 38 (2): 127–130. https://doi.org/10.1159/000278305 Article history Published Online: January 20 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Commentary
Commentaries| January 15 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health James V. Wertsch James V. Wertsch Clark University, Worcester, Mass., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1993) 36 (3): 168–171. https://doi.org/10.1159/000277335 Article history Published Online: January 15 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Vygotsky on Learning and Development
The theoretical framework of Vygotsky entails specific understandings of learning, development, and the goal(s) of development. In Vygotsky’s usage, the term obuchenie, frequently translated as ‘learning’, more accurately indicates the interaction of teacher and student. Although the various domains (phylogenesis, sociocultural history, ontogenesis, and microgenesis) to which Vygotsky extended the concept of development have differing dynamics, t…
Beyond the Individual-Social Antinomy in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky
Many discussions of the difference between Vygotsky and Piaget focus on the proximal locus of development. For Piaget it is said to be in individual children, who construct knowledge through their actions on the world; for Vygotsky it is said to be in social processes. A more appropriate way to distinguish between them has to do with the role attributed to cultural mediation. Mediation of human action by cultural artifacts played a central role i…
Commentary
Commentaries| January 20 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health James V. Wertsch James V. Wertsch Clark University, Worcester, Mass., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1994) 37 (6): 343–345. https://doi.org/10.1159/000278279 Article history Published Online: January 20 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Texto e dialogismo no estudo da memória coletiva
As ideias bakhtinianas sobre texto e dialogismo oferecem ferramentas importantes para trazer ordem ao caótico e fragmentado campo dos estudos da memória coletiva. Embora a definição de memória coletiva neste momento ainda esteja por ser resolvida, é possível obter alguma compreensão do espectro de opções, situando-se as discussões em termos do contraste entre versões fortes e distribuídas da memória coletiva. Tendo por base a noção de mediação se…
Collective Memory
“Collective memory” is a term that appears frequently in the media and everyday conversation. We use it when talking about the causes of ethnic violence and geopolitical miscalculation, political leaders invoke it in times of crisis, and it is behind massive expenditures on museums and holidays. In general, it is hard to go more than a few days without encountering the notion somewhere, but when we try to say just what collective memory is, we re…
Contextualizing the Investigator
This article examines some of the ways in which sociohistorical contexts influence the formulation of issues in developmental psychology. It is essential to examine social, political, and historical forces when trying to understand the discipline. Two examples are provided, the first having to do with child care and the origins of developmental psychology in the USA, the second having to do with formal schooling and the Vygotskian approach to dev…
The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory
Collective memory is analyzed from the perspective of narrative organization. Specifically, narratives provided by a sociocultural context, especially the modern state, are examined in their capacity to serve as cultural tools for members of a collective as they recount the past. The power of these tools to shape collective remembering is examined with the help of a distinction between specific narratives and schematic narrative templates. The fo…
Creating a new discipline of memory studies
The multidisciplinary field of memory studies combines intellectual strands from many domains, including (but not limited to) anthropology, education, literature, history, philosophy, psychology and sociology. Our article has four parts. We first consider definitions of memory and note that the single term itself is not particularly useful. Rather, scholars must specify the type or variety of memory under investigation. Second, we consider the br…
Collective Memory and Narrative Templates
James V. Wertsch Collective Memory and Narrative Templates O N THE EV E N IN G OF APRIL 2 6 , 2 0 0 7 , ROVING BA N D S OF YO UTH IN Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, ransacked autos, storefronts, and other buildings. The next day the city remained tense, and violence erupted again that evening, despite the presence of a large contingent of riot police. By the tim e these two days of civil unrest were over, 1 young m an had been killed, 100 people…
L. S. Vygotsky and contemporary developmental psychology
Central themes from L. S. Vygotsky's writings that have particular relevance for contemporary developmental psychology are outlined, and these ideas are extended in light of recent theoretical advances in the social sciences and humanities. The discussion focuses primarily on Vygotsky's claims about the social origins and social nature of higher (i.e., uniquely human) mental functioning and on his understanding of culture. His claims about the so…
Narrative Tools of History and Identity
History has widely been viewed as being an essential ingredient in the formation of identity. This article examines this assumption from the perspective of how narratives about the past serve as a kind of 'cultural tool' in 'mediated action' that creates and re-creates identity. Some properties of narratives as cultural tools are outlined, and it is argued that both the production and consumption of these cultural tools must be taken into account…
Linking Little Narratives to Big Ones
Developing an account of the encounter between vernacular and official (Bodnar, 1992) mediational means, this paper explores some of the ways narratives about history come into dialogic contact in history museums. We argue that the history museum acts as a public forum where personal lives may be linked more or less closely to collectives through encounters among narratives produced by the museum and its visitors. Through analysis of exhibits at …
Blank Spots in Collective Memory
The dynamics of collective remembering are examined by analyzing what happens when a “blank spot” in history is filled with information that had previously not been available or publicly acknowledged. Taking Russian accounts of the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 as a case study, it is argued that “schematic narrative templates” that shape deep collective memory give rise to a tendency to maintain this memory and help it o…
Narratives as Cultural Tools in Sociocultural Analysis
An approach to sociocultural analysis based on the ideas of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and others is used to provide the foundation for discussing narratives as "cultural tools." The production of official, state sponsored historical narratives is examined from this perspective, and it is argued that this production process may be shaped as much by dialogic encounters with other narratives as by archival information. These claims are harnessed to examine…
Voices of the Mind
Spinning the past
Efforts by national media and political leaders to ‘spin’, or shape the public interpretation of events, are examined from the perspective of collective memory. It is argued that top-down analyses of such efforts overlook essential aspects of how shared national narratives shape collective interpretation and memory. Political leaders’ efforts to manage public discourse about important events provide insight into the existence and structure of ‘de…
Context Dependent Properties of Teachers' Speech
Consuming Nationalism
Themes for future research on memory, mind and media
We describe three areas of inquiry that we foresee as being important in future studies of collective memory, mind, and media. The first is the power of narratives, usually provided by collectives, which can be explicit and conscious or implicit and unconscious. A second important theme during this period of populism and nationalism is the study of the self-centredness (or egocentricity) of groups, especially nations believing their past is speci…
The fragmentation of discourse in the nuclear arms debate
Standard and Nonstandard Dialect Competencies of Hawaiian Creole English Speakers
Carol Fleisher Feldman, Addison Stone, James V. Wertsch, Michael Strizich, Standard and Nonstandard Dialect Competencies of Hawaiian Creole English Speakers, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Mar., 1977), pp. 41-50
Texto e dialogismo no estudo da memória coletiva
As ideias bakhtinianas sobre texto e dialogismo oferecem ferramentas importantes para trazer ordem ao caótico e fragmentado campo dos estudos da memória coletiva. Embora a definição de memória coletiva neste momento ainda esteja por ser resolvida, é possível obter alguma compreensão do espectro de opções, situando-se as discussões em termos do contraste entre versões fortes e distribuídas da memória coletiva. Tendo por base a noção de mediação se…
Collective remembering
Renewed interest in collective memory has raised the need for conceptual elaboration of the topic and how it can be studied. In an attempt to clarify how it fits into interdisciplinary discussion the following conceptual oppositions are laid out: memory versus remembering, collective versus individual remembering, history versus collective memory, and strong versus distributed versions of collective remembering. Collective memory is then analyzed…
A Sociocultural Approach To Mind
Memory and anxiety
Collective anxiety in media, mind, and memoryThis editorial launches the Memory, Mind & Media special collection on 'Memory and Anxiety'.We employ a broadly sociocultural approach to explore anxiety as a collective phenomenon and to situate it in the broader literature on memory and future thinking.We argue that anxiety is more than the collectively reported feelings of worry or a disorder that is tied to an individual's mental and bodily states.…
The influence of listener perception of the speaker on recognition memory
Recent Trends in Soviet Psycholinguistics
As is the case in the United States, psycholinguistics in the Soviet Union is a new and growing science. In both countries it is often difficult to identify a common theoretical or methodological denominator that characterizes all the research being conducted. However, it is possible to point to a few factors that have greatly influencedthe development of the science. These factors may be concerned with the political system under which research i…
Context Dependent Properties of Teachers' Speech
Standard and Nonstandard Dialect Competencies of Hawaiian Creole English Speakers
Carol Fleisher Feldman, Addison Stone, James V. Wertsch, Michael Strizich, Standard and Nonstandard Dialect Competencies of Hawaiian Creole English Speakers, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Mar., 1977), pp. 41-50
Soviet Perspectives on American Social Psychology
This issue of Soviet Psychology provides a partial introduction to the publications of the Division of Philosophical and Social Psychological Problems of the Institute of Psychology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The Institute of Psychology was founded in 1971. The social psychology group has approximately a dozen full-time members and represents the largest concentration of social psychological efforts in the USSR. (It should be noted that the…
A. N. Leont'ev and Soviet Psychology
In this journal issue we present four views of one of the most eminent figures in the history of Soviet psychology, Aleksei Nikolaevich Leont'ev. Two of the papers are by lifelong professional colleagues and friends, P. Ya. Gal'perin and D. B. El'konin; a third is by his student and son A. A. Leont'ev; and the fourth is by a longtime conversation partner who had no particular professional expertise in Leont'ev's discipline, V. F. Tendryakov
The zone of proximal development
Vygotsky's ideas about the zone of proximal development are elucidated and extended by inclusion of the theoretical constructs of situation definition, intersubjectivity, and semiotic mediation
Culture, Communication, and Cognition
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The fragmentation of discourse in the nuclear arms debate
"Introduction To a Special Issue of Cultural Dynamics Devoted To "Sociocultural Approaches To Mind
A Sociocultural Approach To Mind
Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind
Keys to cultural psychology
L. S. Vygotsky and contemporary developmental psychology
Central themes from L. S. Vygotsky's writings that have particular relevance for contemporary developmental psychology are outlined, and these ideas are extended in light of recent theoretical advances in the social sciences and humanities. The discussion focuses primarily on Vygotsky's claims about the social origins and social nature of higher (i.e., uniquely human) mental functioning and on his understanding of culture. His claims about the so…
Putting Persons and Culture Back Together
Russian Psychology
Voices of the Mind
Voices of the Mind
Introduction
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Multivoicedness in Historical Representation
Individuals' representations of history involve a process in which narratives provided by the sociocultural setting are appropriated and used in specific settings to produce concrete texts. This process involves various forms of multivoicedness. The distinction is made between heteroglossia and means conflict as forms of multivoicedness, and these two forms are used to analyze a set of written texts produced by college students about the origins …
Official and Unofficial Histories
We argue that in order to understand how and why history is taught and learned, it is necessary to distinguish between "official" and "unofficial" history. Using this distinction, we examine differing historical representations of events in 1940 that resulted in Estonia's becoming part of the Soviet Union. Results from interviews with six ethnic Estonians are reported in an attempt to examine the differences between their understanding of the off…
Book notes
THE SOCIETAL SUBJECT edited by N. Engelsted, M. Hedegaard, B. Karpatscholf, and A. Mortensen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1993. $26.00. UNDERSTANDING PRACTICE: PERSPECTIVES ON ACTIVITY AND CONTEXT edited by S. Chaiklin and J. Lave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. $59.95. THE CULTURAL‐HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF VERBAL THINKING by Peeter Tulviste (Translated by M. J. Hall; Preface by M. Cole). Commack, NY: NOVA Science Publishers, …
Vygotsky and identity formation
This article considers how Vygotsky's approach to investigating human mental functioning can inform identity research. An integrative sociocultural approach to identity formation is presented here, an approach that utilizes different elements of both Vygotsky's and Erikson's work. Specifically, identity researchers are directed to study identity in local activity settings where participants are actively engaged in forming their identities; to exa…
Sociocultural Research in the Copyright Age
The sociocultural research orientation promises to rebuild psychology into an interdisciplinary science. The central question addressed by this approach is that of relations between persons and their sociocultural activity contexts (individual-society antinomy). In this process, psychology's tendencies to 'methodological individualism' are contrasted with its opposite ('methodological collectivism'). The sociocultural orientation attempts to over…
Dynamics of Negation in the Identity Politics of Cultural Other and Cultural Self
This paper examines the findings of Shi-xu (1995) in terms of how texts that represent a cultural Other may be interpreted as a way of constructing a cultural self. Even when attempting to move beyond colonial and demeaning representations of the cultural Other, these western writers in fact construct a vision of the Other that signifies their own desires and values. Westerners construct their identity dialogically in the texts analyzed by Shi-xu…
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