The mind is constituted by culture, not bare biology

Evidence

We agree with Bruner’s (1990) description of folk psychology as an “instrument of culture,” and with his view that mind is constituted by culture; it is not a naked product of biology or physiological maturation as most theorists imply. Intentional states and experience are meaningful only through participation in the institutionalized meanings of culture. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 431

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bruner’s narrative-vs-logicoscientific distinction on narrative cognition in Against the Grain; also resonates with the reader’s interest in how knowledge is socially constructed. — connects to: Biology only matters to psychology through the lived, meaningful body — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 119; Nature is what human perception and behavior make it, not a hallucination. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1439; Evolutionary and neurological accounts cannot fully explain cultural patterns — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 807 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 431