Abstract
Culture is a system of enduring behavioral and thinking patterns that are created, adopted, and promulgated by a number of individuals jointly. These patterns are social (supraindividual) rather than individual, and they are artifactual rather than natural. Psychological phenomena are cultural insofar as they are social artifacts, more specifically, insofar as their content, mode of operation, and dynamic relationships are:
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Socially created and shared by a number of individuals.
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Integrated with other social artifacts.
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Ratner, C. (2002). Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory. In: Cultural Psychology. Path in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0677-5_2
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