This paper presents one line of sociocultural psychology aiming at a better understanding of people’s development in their courses of life, unfolding in changing social and cultural environment. Adopting such a position leads me to three core questions: First, if development occurs at the junction of the social and the psychological, how can we theoretically account for the guidance of the sociocultural world upon people’s learning and development, and people’s unique capacities to create and transform these environments? Second, if one adopts such perspective, how do we account for what it that people develop through life, as they move through a plurality of situations? And third, as people learn and develop through life, how can we account for what is unique and personal? To address these questions, I first situate the epistemological assumptions of sociocultural psychology in relation to the works of Piaget and Vygotsky. Second, I present the principles of a sociocultural psychology, and indicate the methodological strategies that I have adopted, together with a large group of colleagues over the years. The main part of the paper constitutes in responding to the three questions I raised. Finally, I propose a tentative synthesis.


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研究人类发展的生命历程的社会文化心理学

本文提出了一种社会文化心理学，旨在更好地了解人们在生活过程中的发展，并在不断变化的社会和文化环境中展开。采取这样的立场使我想到三个核心问题：第一，如果发展发生在社会和心理的交界处，我们如何从理论上解释社会文化世界对人们的学习和发展的指导，以及人们独特的创造能力并改变这些环境？其次，如果我们采用这种观点，我们如何解释人们在经历多种情况时在生活中所发展的东西？第三，随着人们在生活中学习和发展，我们如何解释什么是独特的和个人的？为了解决这些问题，我首先将社会文化心理学的认识论假设与皮亚杰和维果茨基的作品联系起来。其次，我介绍了社会文化心理学的原理，并指出了我多年来与一大群同事一起采用的方法论策略。本文的主要部分构成了对我提出的三个问题的回答。最后，我提出一个初步的综合。