Development as a Social Process

Serge Moscovici is Professor of Social Psychology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, and founder of the European Laboratory of Social Psychology at the Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France. Sandra Jovchelovitch is Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, UK, where she directs the Masters programme in Social and Cultural Psychology. Brady Wagoner is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has received a number of prestigious academic awards, including the Sigmund Koch Award, Gates Cambridge Scholarship and the Jefferson Prize.

Gerard Duveen's original and comprehensive approach continues to offer fresh insight into core theoretical, methodological and empirical problems in contemporary psychology. In this collection the editors have carefully selected Duveen's most significant papers to demonstrate the innovative nature of his contribution to developmental, social and cultural psychology.

Series Editor's Introduction Jaan Valsiner Preface Serge Moscovici Introduction: The Context and Development of Ideas Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner Part 1: Piaget: A View from Afar 1. Children's Understanding of Friendship 2. The Child's Reconstruction of Economic Life 3. Piaget Ethnographer 4. Genesis and Structure: Piaget and Moscovici Part 2: Development as Decentration 5. Social Life and the Epistemic Subject 6. Psychological Development as a Social Process 7. Construction, Belief, Doubt 8. On Interviews: A Conversation with Carol Gilligan 9. The Constructive Role of Asymmetries in Social Interaction Part 3: Thinking through Social Representations 10. The Significance of Social Identities 11. Social Representations as a Genetic Theory 12. Representations, Identities, Resistance 13. Culture and Social Representations 14. Social Actors and Social Groups: A Return to Heterogeneity in Social Psychology