CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: A CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE MEETING BETWEEN MIND AND CULTURE

The aim of this paper is to analyse different theoretical approaches that stand out the relevance of studying the differential aspects of mental functioning and its causes. These perspectives are supposed to, in a different grade, overcome the mainstream position about the study of the invariable nature of mind. So, in this paper, we try to find some conceptual clues in order to understand the current state of Cultural Psychology. We explore two perspectives interested in analyzing the role of culture in mental life. The first one starts with the positivistic and realistic tradition of Enlightenment -being Cross-cultural Psychology a modern version-. The second one comes from a relativistic point of view as the one that involves the movement of Romantic Revolution against Enlightenment Rationalism. This last perspective is represented by the second psychology of Wundt.