Contemporary social problems typically involve many complex, interrelated dimensions--psychological,
cultural, and institutional, among others. But today, the social sciences have …

In a book of intellectual breadth, James Wertsch not only offers a synthesis and critique of all
Vygotsky’s major ideas, but also presents a program for using Vygotskian theory as a guide …

Over the three decades that I have been reading Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, I have sometimes
encountered what appear to be inconsistencies or even contradictions. Further reflection (…

In order to outline the conceptual landscape that frames discussions of collective memory,
three oppositions are proposed: collective memory versus collective remembering; history …

Vygotsky’s notions of speech, language and thought have recently begun to receive more
attention in the west, but some of his basic distinctions are not well understood. The first part of …

In Voices of the Mind, James Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses
its inherent cultural, historical, and institutional context. A critical aspect of this approach is …

" Voices of Collective Remembering reviews various understandings of the term'collective
memory'as it is used in the humanities and social sciences. Drawing on this review, James V. …

Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the question of how mental functioning is related to
the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in which it takes place. There are three …

Over the past decade there has been a major upsurge of interest in the ideas of Lev Semenovich
Vygotsky (1896-1934). This is reflected in the dramatic rise in citations of Vygotsky’s …

After a brief overview of the reasons for using “sociocultural,” as opposed to “cultural‐historical,”
“sociohistorical,” or some other term, it is argued that an adequate account of the …