Series foreword; Preface; Foreword Barbara Rogoff; A Daughter's Perspective Aggie Scribner Kapelman; Introduction; Part 1: Pscychology as Social Practice: 1. Issues in the development of a labor mental health program; 2. Advocacy: strategy or slution?; 3. What is community psychology made of?; 4. Social class and mental illness: a critical review; 5. Research as a social process; 6. Psychology and the problems of society: a review; 7. Psychologists, process and performance; Part II. Thinking and Cultural Systems: 8. Societal structures of the mind: a review; 9. Culture and cognition: a review; 10. Situating the experiment in cross-cultural research; 11. Recall of classical syllogisms: a cross-cultural investigation of error on logical problems; 12. Modes of thinking and ways of speaking: culture and logic reconsidered; 13. Intelligence tests: a comparative perspective; Part III. Literacy: Mind and Society: 14. The cognitive consequences of literacy; 15. The practices of literacy: where mind and society meet; 16. Literacy in three metaphors; 17. Observations on literacy education in China; 18. Studying literacy at work: bringing the laboratory to the field; 19. Introduction: The future of literacy in a changing world; Part IV. Cognitive Development: Sociohistorical Perspective: 20. Vygotsky's uses of history; 21. A sociocultural approach to the study of mind; 22. Three developmental paradigms; Part V. Thinking at Work: 23. Mind in action: a functional approach to thinking; 24. Knowledge at work; 25. Thinking in action: some characteristics of practical thought; 26. Studying working intelligence; 27. Mental and manual work: an activity theory orientation; 28. Toward a model of practical thinking at work; 29. Head and hand: an action approach to thinking; Chronology; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.