Psychology and culturology: A means of cooperating and problems associated with cooperation

Abstract

For ages, has been fruitfully cooperating with various cultural studies (the name given to humanities after a well-known book by G. Rikkert), ranged from philosophy to linguistics and ethnology, and from history and anthropology to aesthetics. Modern psychology started with L. S. Vygotsky and his school, and notion and idea of culture are considered to be school's basic concepts. ideas of Vygotsky and his disciples A.N. Leontiev and A.R. Luria were further developed not only in Russian but also worldwide, by American cultural-historical psychologist D. Brunner, M. Cole, S. Scribner, and M. Tomacello. flectedinfluence of on culture studies was first documented in late 19th century. V. Dilthey's psychology-inspired philosophy and literature studies, g. Zimmel's sociology, A. Potebnya and D. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky's psychological aesthetics and literature studies in Russia, and overwhelming Freudian as well as neo-Freudian impacts on all humanities also testify to these ideas.In twentieth century, culturology appeared as a science of culture, where culture means an organized wholeness (system), its general (systemic) properties, as well as its laws and variations. birth of culturology was historically and genetically related to a whole system of cultural studies, and marked a new level of understanding culture and its components. Further work on this sophisticated phenomenon integrated characteristic features of both social and individual human existence. Despite controversial present-day status of culturology, its presence has far-reaching consequences for entire system of social and anthropological studies, among them. But with its corpus of knowledge and approaches is equally essential for culturological thought.This article is aimed at analyzing synergetic relationship between and culturology alongside prospects for using this knowledge to relate Man and society.Let us start with a fundamental point for our consideration. What objectively binds with culturology? What constitutes basis for their cooperation ?Culturology and are objective multilateral relationships, complex mutual determination of main system objects (culture and psychic reality of human beings) builds a foundations for this cooperation. Every macro object is indeed [1] universal in terms of human world, albeit in different ways. Culture comprises a wide range of modalities and substrates; it is closely interlocked and fused with all forms and manifestations of social life and experience of particular individuals without exception, whereas the is a specific, mono- substrate, it has its own qualitative limitations, which means it is localized. The itself acts as one of culture's substrates and specifies particular ways in which it exists: ideal and mental. But these differences in ontological perspective, diversity and quality cannot eliminate psyche's integrity and unalienatedness regarding universe-continuum of social and cultural existence, and this allows both and culture to be treated as attributes of human society. Thus, relationship between culture and present relationship between two attributes which are fundamentally important for Man and his world's realities. Hence, resulting point is attribute/fundamental character of culture-psyche/the psychological relationship, which in itself is basis for our consideration.The interrelationship between culture and can be expressed in T. Dobzhanskiy's words, though he spoke of man's biology (you may use psyche instead): ...trying to understand man's biology while neglecting cultural influences is as useless as attempting to interpret culture's genesis and rise without knowing biological nature of Man(Cole, 1997, 191). …