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Culture and Mind: Their Fruitful Incommensurability
Author(s) -
Bruner Jerome
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2008.00002.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , intersection (aeronautics) , sociology , narrative , epistemology , common ground , cultural psychology , social psychology , social science , aesthetics , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , engineering , aerospace engineering
I reflect here on the historical junctures where anthropology and psychology cross paths, creating foundations for a general cultural psychology in the present. 1 I am particularly attuned to those points of intersection that inform understanding of mind in culture and culture in mind. I focus on institutions as means for canonizing the ordinary, on narrative as a mode of positioning the extraordinary vis‐à‐vis mundane expectations, and on agency, each of which entails intersections of mind and culture. Recent encounters with U.S. legal culture provide a ground for illustrating these intertwining relations of subjects and their cultural milieux. [culture, mind, law, institutions, selectivity]