Beyond Dichotomy: An Embodied Active Agent for Cultural Psychology
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Culture & Psychology
- Vol. 3 (3) , 315-334
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x9733006
Abstract
Boesch's developmentally oriented cultural action theory is explored in the context of relational-developmental metatheory. This metatheory provides an avenue for moving beyond either/or debates to an inclusive understanding concerning the nature of developmental change, expressive-constitutive and instrumental-communicative fcunctions of action, and the nature of the person-action-culture relationship. Moving beyond dichotomy in cultural psychology requires taking seriously the notion of embodiment and describing the person of cultural psychology according to the dimension of embodiment, action and agent. Boesch's approach is identified as a concrete instantiation of these interrelated dimensions.Keywords
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