1st Edition
Semiotic Construction of the Self in Multicultural Societies A Theory of Proculturation
Series Editor Introduction Jaan Valsiner
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1 – Considering semiotic dynamics of social representation
Chapter 2- Overcoming fragmentation – Semiotic dynamics of the self’s construction
Chapter 3 - Theory of Proculturation
Chapter 4- Proculturation as a systemic phenomenological process
Chapter 5– Considering methodological preconditions for proculturation studies
Part II
Chapter 6 - Historical roots of Georgianness – Ethnic positioning through reintegrative proculturation
Chapter 7 - Constructing social representations as sign-complexes – from historical foundations towards contemporary Georgianness
Chapter 8 - The case of emigrant’s proculturation – semiotic jump in the human development
Chapter 9- Conclusions: Proculturation of the Self in context
Biography
Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia is an Assistant Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He got Georgian national "Dimitri Uznadze award in social sciences" in 2019. His interests are associated with theoretical and empirical explorations of self and identity construction, proculturation, and persons' relations with cultures.
