Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory-- The Influence of Cultural Activities on Psychological Phenomena-- The Influence of Cultural Artifacts on Psychological Phenomena-- The Influence of Cultural Concepts on Psychological Phenomena-- The Dialectical Relationship Among Cultural Activities, Artifacts, Concepts, and Psychological Phenomena-- Agency from the Perspective of Activity Theory -- Advantages of Activity Theory for Cultural Psychology-- Notes-- -- 2. Individualistic Approaches to Agency: A Critique-- The Individualistic Conception of Agency and Culture-- Critique of the Individualistic View-- The Scientific and Political Value of Conceptions of Agency-- Notes-- Part 2: Method-- 3. Implications of Activity Theory for Cultural Psychological Research-- The Researcher Must Possess a Comprehensive, Detailed, Profound Understanding of Social -- Activities, Artifacts, and Concepts to Relate Them to Psychological Phenomena-- To Elucidate the Specific Cultural Character of Psychological Phenomena the Researcher Must Construe Them in Concrete Rather than Abstract Terms-- The Cultural Features of Psychological Phenomena Must Be Gleaned from Investigating the Phenomena Themselves-- Experimental Procedures Are Powerful Tools for Indicating the Association Between Psychology, -- Activities, Artifacts, and Concepts-- Qualitative Methods Are Necessary for Discerning the Cultural Character of Psychological Phenomena-- The Qualitative Methods that Investigate Cultural Facets of Psychological Phenomena Must Be Rigorous and -- Systematic in Order to Draw Warranted Conclusions-- Cultural Features of Psychology Must Be Discerned by the Cultural Psychologist Through Skillful, Probing Analysis -- Because People Are Ordinarily Not Aware of Them -- The Foregoing Principles of Cultural Psychological Research Are Applicable to Studying Cultural -- Aspects of Psychological Phenomena in All Societies -- Notes-- -- 4. Interviewing Techniques for Eliciting Cultural-Psychological -- Information-- The Value of Interviews -- Formulating Interview Questions-- Conducting the Interview-- -- 5. A Procedure for Analyzing Cultural Themes in Verbal Accounts-- A Phenomenological Procedure for Identifying Psychological Themes in Verbal Accounts-- An Application of the Phenomenological Procedure to Cultural Psychology -- A Cultural Analysis of Psychological Themes-- Objective Determination of Meanings-- Quantification-- Notes-- -- 6. An Empirical Investigation into the Cultural Psychology of Children's Moral Reasoning -- Theoretical Framework -- Procedure-- Results-- Notes.