ABSTRACT
Jerome Bruner in his Acts of Meaning (1990) argues that contemporary psychology has become fragmented, that it has lost touch with the broader intellectual community, and that it needs to refocus on the great psychological questions, once again ‘questions about the nature of mind and its processes, questions about how we construct our meanings and our realities, questions about the shaping of mind by history and culture’ (Bruner 1990:xi). Once psychology addresses meaning as a central issue it invariably concerns itself with culture:
A cultural psychology, almost by definition, will not be preoccupied with ‘behavior’ but with ‘action’…and more specifically, with situated action, action situated in a cultural setting, and in the mutually interacting intentional states of the participants.
