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Zittoun, Tania

Nom
Zittoun, Tania
Affiliation principale
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Professeure ordinaire
Email
tania.zittoun@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/110
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0000-0003-3203-2819

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  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Crises in the course of lives, Crises in society: A sociocultural approach
    (2022)
    Zittoun, Tania 
    Lives are constantly changing, and so are societies. Yet some changes seem more disruptive and these are especially strong than others, and we tend to call them "crises" - and these are especially strong when they imply a mismatch between changing lives and their evolving contexts. How to understand these phenomena? Sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse offers us a theoretical frame to study the mutual making of people's course of life, and their changing social and cultural environment. It has especially examined the role of ruptures and transitions in the course of life, and their role in human development; it has also provided conceptual means to examine the link between social and historical changes, and courses of life. At a theoretical level, it has brought to the fore semiotic, dialogical dynamics by which history and courses of life are related; at a methodological level, it has promoted case studies, whether individual or regional, to make these dynamics visible. In this lecture, I will thus examine a series of recent studies showSociocultural psychology, lifecourse, semiotic, dialogicaling the relation between crises in life, and crises in the context.
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    Meaning making in motion: Bodies and minds moving through institutional and semiotic structures
    (2013)
    Gillespie, Alex
    ;
    Zittoun, Tania 
    What is meaning? And how does it arise? Werner and Kaplan’s approach to symbol formation was prescient in understanding the importance of the body and activity. However, their embodied approach needs to be complemented by a broader conceptualization of social institutions and complex semiotic structures in the genesis and function of symbolic processes. Specifically, human bodies, which are the medium and locus of experience, are embedded in social situations and institutions. Thus embodied experience, the origin of meaning, must be understood as societally structured. Moreover, human experience is never unmediated; it is refracted through the complex semiotic artifacts that comprise human culture, such as discourses, social representations and symbolic resources. The present article focuses on the importance of bodies moving within institutions and minds moving within semiotic structures as a basis for meaning making. We argue that such movement has been neglected; yet, it has the potential to enhance our understanding of how experiences are differentiated and integrated within individuals to produce individuals who are products of society and who also have agency in relation to society.
  • Publication
    Accès libre