Salvatore Sergio
ISBEM, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2017 Mar;51(1):1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12124-016-9366-2.
In this paper I discuss two basic theses about the formalization of cultural psychology. First, I claim that formalization is a relevant, even necessary stage of development of this domain of science. This is so because formalization allows the scientific language to achieve a much needed autonomy from the commonsensical language of the phenomena that this science deals with. Second, I envisage the two main functions that formalization has to perform in the field of cultural psychology: on the one hand, it has to provide formal rules grounding and constraining the deductive construction of the general theory; on the other hand, it has to provide the devices for supporting the interpretation of local phenomena, in terms of the abductive reconstruction of the network of linkages among empirical occurrences comprising the local phenomena.
在本文中，我将讨论关于文化心理学形式化的两个基本论点。第一，我认为形式化是这一科学领域发展的一个相关且甚至必要的阶段。之所以如此，是因为形式化使科学语言能够从该科学所研究现象的常识性语言中获得亟需的自主性。第二，我设想形式化在文化心理学领域必须履行的两个主要功能：一方面，它必须提供形式规则，为一般理论的演绎构建奠定基础并加以约束；另一方面，它必须提供手段，以便根据对构成局部现象的经验事件之间联系网络的溯因重建，来支持对局部现象的解释。
