Doing Gender Through Patterns

Cabra, Martina

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“…We draw on our past work identifying rupture and transitions as catalysed occasions of development and sense-making (Zittoun, 2006(Zittoun, , 2012Zittoun et al, 2003). We have used the term "dynamic pattern" to account for people's unique style of acting, solving problems, imagining, or making sense (Cabra, 2021;Zittoun, 2019Zittoun, , 2022. These dynamic, psychological patterns precisely correspond to Allport's earlier proposition: people's way of acting or sensemaking may change object, move across situations, become more concrete or more abstract, change modality of expression, become generalised… Here are two succinct examples from our current field works.…”

Section: On What Remains the Same And Yet Changesmentioning

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Integrative Perspectives on Human Development: Dynamic and Semiotic

Zittoun

2023

Integr. psych. behav.

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Werner Greve argues for an abstract and integrative theory of development; to progress toward such a theory, he suggests that evolutionary psychology can provide concepts for a processual approach to adaptation. To complement this perspective, I propose to start where the author finishes: the need to further qualify change, and to account for information. Considering ruptures and sense-making as cornerstones of a developmental approach, I recall that open dynamic approaches offer a meta-theoretical frame for an integrative developmental psychology, and that cultural approaches already and always account for meaning-making to start with. Assuming these two givens, a variety of integrative propositions account for stability and change; I present an historical example, the work of Gordon Allport, and a current one, our work as sociocultural psychologists, to show how the theoretical and heuristic interest of this proposition.

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Section: On What Remains the Same And Yet Changesmentioning

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Integrative Perspectives on Human Development: Dynamic and Semiotic

Zittoun

2023

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…Of course, it is very likely that thematic engagements and dynamic patterns evolve through life and experiences, across domains and expertise. In her work, Martina Cabra shows that children already develop preferred modes of resolution of problems (Cabra, 2021a(Cabra, , 2021b; it would be very interesting to study how these longitudinally transform along the course of life, or whether they take typical shapes. Here, we just opened a new line of investigation to characterize each person's life learning and development.…”

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A Sociocultural Psychology of the Life Course to Study Human Development

Zittoun¹

2022

Human Development

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This paper presents one line of sociocultural psychology aiming at a better understanding of people’s development in their courses of life, unfolding in changing social and cultural environment. Adopting such a position leads me to three core questions: First, if development occurs at the junction of the social and the psychological, how can we theoretically account for the guidance of the sociocultural world upon people’s learning and development, and people’s unique capacities to create and transform these environments? Second, if one adopts such perspective, how do we account for what it that people develop through life, as they move through a plurality of situations? And third, as people learn and develop through life, how can we account for what is unique and personal? To address these questions, I first situate the epistemological assumptions of sociocultural psychology in relation to the works of Piaget and Vygotsky. Second, I present the principles of a sociocultural psychology, and indicate the methodological strategies that I have adopted, together with a large group of colleagues over the years. The main part of the paper constitutes in responding to the three questions I raised. Finally, I propose a tentative synthesis.

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“…Although there are diverse attempts to develop such a psychology of the lifecourse inspired by a cultural psychological tradition, these are usually randomly distributed in journals, book chapters, or occasional volumes (for instance, to name a few: Akkerman & Bakker, 2019;Bernal Marcos et al, 2018;Cabra, 2021;Gillespie, 2005;Hviid, 2020;Perret-Clermont, 2008;Zittoun, 2007). This series has as program to bring forward authors and group of authors that centrally address the development of persons and that contribute to a sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse.…”

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Psychobiographical Illustrations on Meaning and Identity in Sociocultural Contexts

2021

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The Sociocultural Psychology of the Lifecourse book series seeks to further our knowledge of the development of people in their complex sociocultural worlds, both empirically and theoretically. Its sociocultural psychological perspective proposes to account for the development of people as unique persons, with their perspective and subjectivity, within the social and cultural environments that guide them and yet which they can themselves transform. The book series showcases works that provide a complex understanding of development in the lifecourse, contribute to the theorization of the lifecourse and present original data -based on case studies, segments of lives, or trajectories of living. It will also include books which present synthetic theoretical, epistemological or methodological contributions. By documenting the richness of lives and developing the relevant theoretical tools, books in this series will make a unique contribution to sociocultural, developmental psychology, and to the study of the courses of lives.

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Doing Gender Through Patterns

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Integrative Perspectives on Human Development: Dynamic and Semiotic

Integrative Perspectives on Human Development: Dynamic and Semiotic

A Sociocultural Psychology of the Life Course to Study Human Development

Psychobiographical Illustrations on Meaning and Identity in Sociocultural Contexts

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