jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2015

I don´t know if I admire this psychologist, but he is a guide for many others works and studies in psychology area. I´m talking about Lev Vygotski, a Russian psychologist. Vygotski was born in 1896 and started his studies and works around 1915; he formulated his bibliography between 1920 and 1933, year where he wrote his last book “Thought and language”, the same year of his passing by tuberculosis. It was a difficult date for be a writer of psychologist theories, the world wars had influence in his publications, and very often his books had cuttings and vetoes by the hand of the URSS.  It explains why his works was discovery for the occidental world almost four decades after his death. The fundamental idea of his work is include social interactions for explain human development. According to his vision, human development is a process where we internalize cultural resources since we were babies, such as language. But we don´t assimilate this resources, we create a new own cultural image from own cultural context. I like his work because he took a big step including cultural influence for explain human development. 

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