Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constru Making of the Future: The Trajectory Equifinality Approach in Cultural Psychology(HC), (Hardcover)

Making of the Future is the first English-language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology--TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a guiding approach for cultural psychology all over the World. Its central feature is the reliance on irreversible time as the basis for understanding of cultural phenomena and the consideration of real and imaginary options in human life course as relevant for the construction of personal futures.

The book is expected to be of interest in researchers and practitioners in education, developmental and social psychology, developmental sociology and history. It has extensions for research methodology in the focus on different sampling strategies.