On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Michael Dawson wrote:
> Sure, fine, but why preserve the culture concept at all? I would say that
> it played a role 100 years ago, when whiteys needed to be shown that Adam
> Smith and Social Darwinist presumptions were BS.
>
> I don't know of a single instance where the culture concept has helped, by
> the standards of the 21st century. It's a non-scientific concept, a modern
> morph of "race."
Cultural psychology is a subfield in psychology that has generated a lot of interesting theories verified by research. If you buy the idea that scientific investigation is a good thing, culture is every bit as helpful as other empirically supported abstract concepts (e.g., gravity).
Miles