Relating to Environments: A New Look at Umwelt (Advances in Cultural Psychology) (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development) - Hardcover

Chang, Rosemarie Sokol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607521377 ISBN 13: 9781607521372

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Jakob von Uexkull founded Umwelt research with a clear idea – that humans are not qualitatively different than other species. Umwelt, literally “outer-world”, is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. Thus the world is a truly subjective place.

While von Uexkull’s theory has entered into the social sciences via semiotics, and biology via ethology, the authors of these chapters go between and beyond these disciplines to examine everything from cells to spiders to humans and culture. The authors adopt the framework of Umwelt theory to examine unique aspects of the natural world by relating the inner world of the subject and the objects to which that organism attends.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607521377
• ISBN 13: 9781607521372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236