ABSTRACT
The dialectical relationship among social institutions, cultural artifacts, cultural concepts, and psychological phenomena can be apprehended only by a dialectical epistemology or methodology. Epistemology recapitulates ontology. If things dialectically interpenetrate each other (ontologically), this relationship can be known only by an epistemology that examines things-in-relation. A fragmentary epistemology that investigates elements in isolation could not apprehend the ontological, internal relationship among the components.
