Culture and the Development of Children's Action: A Theory of Human Development

Developmental and Nondevelopmental Orientations in Psychology, and Their Contexts. Basic Assumptions Underlying Psychological Research. Crossroads of the Deductive and Inductive Lines of Knowledge Construction in Psychology. Theoretical Bases for a Theory of "Bounded Indeterminacy" of Development. The Theoretical System. Actions in Culturally Organized Contexts: Settings of Mealtimes. Cultural Regulation and the Development of Children's Actions at Mealtimes. Cultural Autoregulation of the Self: Semiotic Mediation of the Intrapsychological Realm. Conclusions: "Bounded Variability" in Human Psychological Development, and the Methodology for Its Study. References. Index.