Free Psychology Books: Cultural Psychology by Carl Ratner

Cultural Psychology by Carl Ratner 

In order to advance psychological science and social reform, we are going to explore the cultural nature of mind. This means more than describing psychological variations in different cultures. It also means more than as-sociating cultural variables and psychological variables. Exploring the cultural nature of mind means explaining why and how these variations and associations occur. It means explaining why and how the mind origi-nates in cultural processes and factors, is organized by them, embodies them in its form and content, and functions to support them. Like all sci-entific theories, a cultural theory of psychology strives to elucidate unobservable principles, processes, elements, relationships, and dynamics that underlie observable phenomena. Macro cultural psychology is a radical reconceptualization of psychology. Its revising of conventional psychological theory is inspired and justified by other impertinent scientific reconceptualizations such as Galileo’s view of our galaxy, Darwin’s view of evolution, the atomic theory of matter, and Ein-stein’s theory of time. Reconceptualizing the mind as cultural involves emphasizing new cul-tural-psychological features, functions, factors, processes, principles, rela-tionships, explanatory constructs, and methodology. These are introduced here and explained throughout the book. Let us begin by illus-trating the distinctive [.....]

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