Abstract

We discussed three major conceptual problems inherent in the psychological science. Objectivism was disputed from the construal perspective. Universalism was disputed in two aspects; phenomenology and cultural historicity. Sociality in the current state of social psychology is defined as interpersonal entity and the social vacuum still needs to be filled in. Cultural psychology is a promising alternative to handle all the above problems. We reviewed the divergent perspectives of cultural psychology and categorized them into the cognition-centered approach and the activity-centered approach. A fruitful direction for psychology in Korea is proposed; the excavation of concepts from Korean mind and theory building from it is mandatory.