---
title: "Methodical culturalism"
chunk: 1/1
source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodical_culturalism"
category: "reference"
tags: "science, encyclopedia"
date_saved: "2026-05-05T12:09:35.561063+00:00"
instance: "kb-cron"
---

Methodical culturalism is a philosophical approach developed by Peter Janich and his pupils. Its core statement is that science is not developed from purely theoretical considerations, but as a development of everyday, proto-scientific human behavior—in other words, that science is a stylized form of everyday knowledge-forming practice.
Thus, from the viewpoint of methodical culturalism, science is understood as a continuation of the practical processes of the everyday world and must be analyzed from this aspect systematically and methodically.
Methodical culturalism is a development of the methodical constructivism of the Erlangen School of constructivism.


== See also ==
Action theory
Constructivist epistemology


== External links ==
Peter Janich: Kulturalismus (in German)
Peter Janich: Kultur des Wissens – natürlich begrenzt? (in German)
Rafael Capurro zum Informationsbegriff von Peter Janich (in German)
Dirk Hartmann: Willensfreiheit und die Autonomie der Kulturwissenschaften (pdf-Datei; 176 KB) (in German)