Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of the systolic pressure (maximum during one heart beat) over diastolic pressure (minimum in between two heart beats) and is measured in millimeters of mercury , above the surrounding atmospheric pressure (considered to be zero for convenience).
social/organizational/cultural context. It sees words as symbols interpreted in context. Mead (1934) and Blumer (1972) stressed communication as symbolic interaction that created meaning and oneâs sense of both self and society. Discourse analysis is an extension and elaboration of the contextual perspective.
My remarks today are intended to contribute to this ongoing re-appraisal. In particular, I want to examine the relationship between Russian cultural-historical psychology and the general conceptual world view referred to as contextualism. I begin by examining two uses of the term, context, which are in wide use among Anglo-American social scientists.