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On the Social Nature of Human Cognition: An Analysis of the shared intellectual roots of George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygotsky
Author(s) -
VALSINER JAAN,
VEER RENÉ
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1988.tb00119.x
Subject(s) - chapel , george (robot) , citation , sociology , psychology , library science , art history , humanities , art , computer science
. . . All higher psychologicdl functions are internalized relationships of the social kind, and constitute the social structure of personality. Their composition, genetic structure, ways of functioning, in one word, all their nature is social. Even when they have become psychological processes, their nature remains quasisocial. The human being who is alone retains the function of interaction (Vygotsky, 1960, p.198).