What si cultural Psychology?
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Cultural Psychology
cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary fields that unites psychologists, antropologists, linguists ang philosophers for a common pursuit: the study of how cultural meanings, partices, and institutions influence and reflect individual human psychologies.
The main tenet of cultural psychology has been and in most cases still is that mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive, meaning that people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them.[2]
Yet, does culture indeed act as some kind of agent? It is the most pressing problem in this field of research: is culture just a label, sometimes an excuse, then merely a metaphor? Or does it really ‘do’ something, influencing people’s behavior for example? Gerd Baumann has argued: "Culture is not a real thing, but an abstract and purely analytical notion. In itself «it» does not «cause» behavior, but denotes an abstraction from it, and is thus neither normative nor predictive but a heuristic means towards explaining how people understand and act upon the world."[3] More on this issue in section 9.