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Meaning in Action

Constructions, Narratives, and Representations

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Toshio Sugiman

    1. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Kenneth J. Gergen

    1. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, USA

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  3. Wolfgang Wagner

    1. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

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  4. Yoko Yamada

    1. Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action

    1. The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action

      • Toshio Sugiman, Kenneth J. Gergen, Wolfgang Wagner, Yoko Yamada
      Pages 1-20

  4. Constructing Meaning in Everyday Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Moralities We Live by: Moral Focusing in the Context of Technological Change

      • Nicole Kronberger
      Pages 115-134

    3. A Theory of Construction of Norm and Meaning: Osawa’s Theory of Body

      • Toshio Sugiman
      Pages 135-148

    4. The Transcendental Nature of Norms: Infants in Residential Nurseries and Child Adoption

      • Akiko Rakugi
      Pages 149-162

    5. Using Social Knowledge: A Case Study of a Diarist’s Meaning Making During World War II

      • Tania Zittoun, Alex Gillespie, Flora Cornish, Emma-Louise Aveling
      Pages 163-179

  6. Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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are far from genetically ? xing what behavioral preferences they may possess. Instead, learning mechanisms offer a ? exible way of attaining locally important cultural knowledge within temporal windows of opportunity as has been convi- ingly shown by research in language and culture attainment. Similar mechanisms are likely to exist for other social capacities, such as mate preferences, for example. It is this role of our biological inheritance that social science must appreciate in order to furnish a more complete understanding of human behavior. Within the natural range of variation of capacities and armed with biologically conditioned learning mechanisms we live out lives of meaning – in which we hold some things to be real, rational, valuable or morally right, and others not. It is this world of meaning in which we ? nd love and hate, struggles for justice, power, and money, and the dramas that lend to life both its depth and passion.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Toshio Sugiman

  • Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, USA

    Kenneth J. Gergen

  • Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Wolfgang Wagner

  • Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yoko Yamada

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