1st Edition

Social Thinking and History A Sociocultural Psychological Perspective on Representations of the Past

By Constance De Saint Laurent Copyright 2021
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Social Thinking and History demonstrates that our representations of history are constructed through complex psychosocial processes in interaction with multiple others, and that they evolve throughout our lifetime, playing an important role in our relation to our social environment. Building on the literature on social thinking, collective memory, and sociocultural psychology, this book... Read more

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Series editor's introduction by Jaan Valsimer

Introduction

1 Sociocultural psychology

2 Social thinking and collective memory

3 Thinking about the collective past: beyond collective memory

4 The collective past in ineractions

5 Trajectories of remembering

6 Resources and processes to think about the collective past

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Constance de Saint Laurent is a postdoctoral researcher for the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the University of Bologna and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.