Relating to Environments
Chang, Rosemarie Sokol A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology
Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University
Book Summary:
Jakob von Uexkull founded Umwelt research with a clear idea - that humans are not qualitatively different than other species. Umwelt, literally "outer-world", is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. Thus the world is a truly subjective place.
While...