Sociocultural Psychology on the Regional Scale: A Case Study of a Hill

In: SpringerBriefs in Psychology Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Preface of the Series Editors -- Symbolic Places: Cultural Psychology of Human Life Course -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Table -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Říp -- References -- Chapter 2: Building a Theoretical Frame: Towards Patterns -- 2.1 Defining A Sociocultural Psychological Epistemology -- 2.2 The Region as a Sociocultural Unit -- 2.3 What Is a Region Made of? -- 2.3.1 Sociogenesis: Places, Events and Mobilities -- 2.3.2 Microgenesis: Cultural Sub-systems, Frames of Activity, Networks, Boundaries -- 2.3.3 Ontogenesis: Proximal and Distal Spheres of Experience, Imagination and Ruptures -- 2.4 Human Development in a Region -- 2.4.1 Development as Transactions -- 2.4.2 Internalisation: How Cultural Meanings Become Psychological -- 2.4.3 Developing in a Region -- 2.5 A Theoretical Proposition: Patterned Experiences -- 2.5.1 Patterns in Development -- 2.5.2 Looking for Patterns -- References -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- 3.1 Case Studies in the Social and Psychological Sciences -- 3.1.1 The Reflexive Turn in Methodology -- 3.1.2 On What Makes a Case Study and Other Preliminary Questions -- 3.1.3 On the Quality of a Case Study -- 3.2 Studying a Region: Fieldwork -- 3.2.1 Positionality -- 3.2.2 Data Collection -- 3.2.3 Saturation? -- 3.3 Building a Theoretical, Exploratory Case Study -- 3.3.1 Analysing Data -- 3.3.2 Towards Generalisation -- 3.4 Coda: But Why So Much Effort? -- References -- Chapter 4: Sociogenesis: The Making of a Land and a Symbolic Space -- 4.1 A Short History of the Czech Lands from the Perspective of Říp and Its Region -- 4.1.1 Origins and Early History -- 4.1.2 Flourishing to Become a First Republic -- 4.1.3 From Munich to the End of World War II -- 4.1.4 Communism -- 4.1.5 The Velvet Revolution and Thereafter -- 4.2 The Uses of Říp, in Past and Present Times.