Beyond dichotomy: An embodied active agent for cultural psychology

Journal/Book: Cult Psychol. 1997; 3: 6 Bonhill Street, London, England EC2A 4PU. Sage Publications Ltd. 315-334.

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 functions 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.

Note: Article Overton WF, Temple Univ, Dept Psychol, Philadelphia,PA 19122 USA

Keyword(s): action; agent; development; embodiment; metatheory

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