Cultural Realities of Being: Abstract ideas within everyday lives

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Nandita Chaudhary (Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India) S. Anandalakshmy (Advisor on Child Development and Education, India)

Cultural Realities of Being

Abstract ideas within everyday lives

Nandita Chaudhary (Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India), S. Anandalakshmy (Advisor on Child Development and Education, India), Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark)

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Routledge
09 January 2017

Social & political philosophy; Society & Social Sciences; Sociology; Child & developmental psychology; Social, group or collective psychology

Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation

Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue.

Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner bring together contributors from the field of cultural psychology to consider how people living within social groups, regardless of how liberal, are guided by collective reality and interconnected with life circumstances. The book discusses experiences and events in the lives of people of Indian cultures covering topics including family, food, pilgrimages, social dynamics and truth, in order to expand the material on human phenomena under the broad frame of cultural psychology.

The book builds upon rich cultural traditions present in India, and precisely because of this focus, the book has much larger implications and relevance to the field and aims to orient the academic reader from around the world to viewing India and Indian society as a valuable area for research.

Divided into three sections, the book covers: • Social presentation in culture • Representing relations • Children and youth in culture

This book includes commentaries from expert academics from outside of India, providing a bridge between academic reality and cultural discourse and throwing fresh light on the everyday events presented in the text. Cultural Realities of Being will be essential reading for those studying Cross Cultural Psychology as well as those interested in social representation and identity.

Edited by: Nandita Chaudhary (Lady Irwin College University of Delhi India), S. Anandalakshmy (Advisor on Child Development and Education, India), Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138636866
ISBN 10: 113863686X
Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 09 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nandita Chaudhary is Associate Professor at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India. S. Anandalakshmy is a consultant in Chennai, India. Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA.