Valsiner / Molenaar / Lyra Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-387-95922-1
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 668 Seiten

All psychological processes—like biological and social ones—are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This feature of reality is often not recognized in the social sciences where we operate with averaged data and with homogeneous stereotypes, and consider our consistency to be the cornerstone of rational being. Yet we are all inconsistent in our actions within a day, or from, one day to the next, and much of such inconsistency is of positive value for our survival and development. Our inconsistent behaviors and thoughts may appear chaotic, yet there is generality within this highly variable dynamic.

The task of scientific methodologies—qualitative and quantitative—is to find out what that generality is. It is the aim of this handbook to bring into one framework various directions of construction of methodology of the dynamic processes that exist in the social sciences at the beginning of the 21 century. This handbook is set up to bring together pertinent methodological scholarship from all over the world, and equally from the quantitative and qualitative orientations to methodology. In addition to consolidating the pertinent knowledge base for the purposes of its further growth, this book serves the major educational role of bringing practitioners—students, researchers, and professionals interested in applications—the state of the art know-how about how to think about extracting evidence from single cases, and about the formal mathematical-statistical tools to use for these purposes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valsiner, Jaan

Molenaar, Peter C. M.

Lyra, Maria C. D. P.

Chaudhary, Nandita

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;13
3;Contributors;15
4;The Unbearable Dynamicity of Psychological Processes: Highlights of the Psychodynamic Theories;29
5;Reviving Person-Centered Inquiry in Psychology: Why it’s Erstwhile Dormancy?;59
6;How Methodology Became a Toolbox—And How it Escapes from that Box;72
7;The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology, or: The Disunity of Psychology as a Working Hypothesis;94
8;The Experimental Methodology of Constructive Microgenesis;125
9;The Schema Approach: A Dynamic View on Remembering;148
10;Against Reification! Praxeological Methodology and its Benefits;166
11;Grasping the Dynamic Nature of Intersubjectivity;196
12;Idiographic Data Analysis: Quantitative Methods— From Simple to Advanced;216
13;Depicting the Dynamics of Living the Life: The Trajectory Equifinality Model;242
14;Analysis of Intensive Categorical Longitudinal Data;266
15;Advances in Dynamic Factor Analysis of Psychological Processes;279
16;Hidden Markov Models for Individual Time Series;293
17;Multilevel Simultaneous Component Analysis for Studying Intra- Individual Variability and Inter- Individual Differences;314
18;Idiographic Microgenesis: Re-Visiting the Experimental Tradition of Aktualgenese;342
19;Dynamic Methods for Research in Education;376
20;Social Dynamics in Complex Family Contexts and its Study;406
21;Dynamics of Life-Course Transitions: A Methodological Reflection;428
22;Dynamic Methodology in Infancy Research;454
23;Dynamics of Psychotherapy Processes;477
24;Dramatic Life Courses: Migrants in the Making;498
25;Innovative Moments and Change Processes in Psychotherapy: An Exercise in New Methodology;514
26;Techno Parties, Soccer Riots, and Breakdance: Actionistic Orientations as a Principle of Adolescence;548
27;Dynamic Processes and the Anthropology of Emotions in the Life Course and Aging: Late- Life Love Sentiments and Household Dynamics in Tuareg Psycho- Biographies;562
28;Synthetic Phenomena and Dynamic Methodologies;588
29;Developmental Science: Integrating Knowledge About Dynamic Processes in Human Development;616
30;Cognitive and Interactive Patterning: Processes of Creating Meaning;639
31;Index;671