Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: General Conceptual and Methodological Approaches
Chapter 1 – Meaning and Its Manifestations: The Meaning System (pp. 3-32)
Shulamith Kreitler (Tel-Aviv University, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Chapter 2 – A Psychosemantic Approach to the Study of Meanings (pp. 33-56)
Victor Petrenko and Olga Mitina (Moscow State University after M. Lomonosov, Moscow, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow)
Part II: Meaning from the Perspective of Different Disciplines
Chapter 3 – The Other(s‘) Sense(s): Meaning, Sensorial Experience and Anthropological Encounters (pp. 59-72)
Diana Riboli (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 4 – Meaning, Self and Interaction from a Sociological Perspective: Exploring the Relation in Two Studies on Prestige and Solidarity in Greece (pp. 73-88)
Vasiliki Kantzara (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 5 – Against Crowding Out the Meaning of Meaning (pp. 89-112)
Rainer Born and Eva Gatarik (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Czech Republic)
Chapter 6 – Meaning Constitution Analysis: A Transcendental Phenomenological Approach to Empirical Research in Psychology and Related Areas (pp. 113-148)
Roger B. Sages (Department of Psychology, Work-and Organisational Science, Division, University of Lund, Sweden)
Part III: Applications of Meaning in Different Domains
Chapter 7 – Meaning in Education: The Meaning Dimensions As Tools for the Training of Thinking Skills (pp. 151-172)
Adva Margaliot (Achva Academic College of Education, Israel)
Chapter 8 – Meaning in Life Operationalized: An Empirical Approach to Existential Psychology (pp. 173-194)
Tatjana Schnell (Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, Austria)
Chapter 9 – Psychological Meaning from the Point of View of the Psychology of Personal Constructs (pp. 195-210)
Miroslav Filip (Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Part IV: Methodological Approaches to Meaning
Chapter 10 – Semantic Calculus of Meanings (pp. 213-220)
Meir Kuzari Kozarinsky (Israeli Association for Psychotherapy, Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Chapter 11 – Narrative Meaning: Dilemmas of Interpretation (pp. 221-242)
Vladimír Chrz and Ivo Čermák (Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Chapter 12 – Analysis of Textual Data in Psychology (pp. 243-254)
Tomáš Urbánek and Kristína Czekóová (Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Editors’ Contact Information
Index