How culture affects a man's behavior

Throughout the chapter Bruner explains the concept of culture and the role it plays in psychology. One of the main points in his arguments is the importance of a man's participation in the culture and the mental powers he gets from it that make it unlikely to construct human psychology on the behavior on an individual alone. I agree with this point as I think that a person's surroundings definitely influences the way they talk and act towards people. The second thing he says is that psychology is immersed in culture, it must be organized around those meaning-making and meaning-using processes that connect man to culture. I agree with this as it is apparent that humans, from a young age, learn from each other and notions set beforehand that inherent to them from a young age. They communicate with each other or participate in the culture they are in and from this their learning grows off of each other. The third thing he states in his argument is that psychology lies in the power of folk psychology and this is what makes human beings tick. In his explanation, he is a bit unclear about the idea of it as he states that it changes, but it doesn't get replaced either. What does he mean that it changes with culture's changing responses to the world and to the people in it? With Bruner's argument, he basically states that the human being cannot act a certain way without the effects of the culture around him in his actions. The human's participation in the culture is what opens him up to influence to that culture. He also states that folk psychology should be the center of attention when it gets explained. It shouldn't be replaced or diverted from as what happened with the Cognitive Revolution.