Transitions : development through symbolic resources

• Main Author: Zittoun, Tania (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2006]
• Series: Advances in cultural psychology.
• Subjects: Adolescent psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Popular culture.; Culture > Psychological aspects.; Change (Psychology); Symbolism (Psychology); Identity (Psychology) in adolescence.; Psychology > Developmental > General.; Child, developmental and lifespan psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918116298
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-502-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

What do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing? How do these cultural products act as 'symbolic resources' in the process of development? And what can we, as researchers, learn by studying people's uses of fiction? This monograph ap...