This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest
Boesch's synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of
culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt's Volkerpsychologie of
the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of
today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was
charted out by Wundt-yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct
recognition of such continuity. While Wundt's experimental
psychology has been hailed as the root for contemporary scientific
psychology, the other side of his contribution- ethnographic
analysis of folk traditions and higher psychological functions- has
been largely discredited as something disconnected from the
scientific realm. As an example of ""soft"" science-lacking the
""hardness"" of experimentation-it has been considered to be an
esoteric hobby of the founding father of contemporary psychology.
Of course that focus is profoundly wrong-the opposition ""soft""
versus ""hard"" just does not fit as a metalevel organizer of any
science.Yet the rhetoric discounting the descriptive side of
Wundt's psychology is merely an act of social guidance of what
psychologists do-not a way of creating knowledge.
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