¿Qué añade a la psicología el adjetivo cultural?

Abstract

This article approaches the concept of cultural psychology via the confrontation of the naturalistic and personalistic attitudes to the psychological phenomena. It starts reviewing some of the basic agreements about how scientijic psychology approaches its subject-matter, and some of the basic presuppositions of a philosophy of culture. Time, and its relationship with change and development, is taking into account in order to accept a co-constructionist approach to the development of personal and public cultures, as well as to a consideration of meaning related to Peirce's semiotics. The relationship between the biological structures and the actions of the human psychological subject is viewed through the tools developed by neo-connectionist theoreticians. Conclusions call for interdisciplinary dialogue both within the subdisciplines ofpsychology and with neighbouring sciences, and adopting a constructionist and constructivist approach
to psychology within a critical realism.