Development as a Social Process: Contributions of Gerard Duveen (Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation)

This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internationally renowned figure, whose untimely death left a void in the fields of socio-developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and research into social representations.

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.

Divided into three sections, the book includes:

• Duveen's engagement with Jean Piaget
• the role of social life in human development and the making of cognition
• social representations and social identities

Introduced with chapters from Serge Moscovici, Sandra Jovchelovitch and Brady Wagoner, this book presents previously unpublished papers, as well as chapters available here in English for the first time. It will be essential reading for those studying high level developmental psychology, educational psychology, social psychology, and cultural psychology.

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.