Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences
Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences Edited by Jaan Valsiner, Peter C.M. Molenaar, Maria C.D.P. Lyra, and Nandita Chaudhary Reality is dynamic: filled with variables and constantly in flux. So are the physical, psych
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Jaan Valsiner • Peter C.M. Molenaar • Maria C.D.P. Lyra • Nandita Chaudhary Editors
Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences
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Editors Dr. Jaan Valsiner Clark University Dept. Psychology 950 Main Street Worcester MA 01610 USA [email protected]
Prof. Maria C.D.P. Lyra Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Recife-PE Brazil
Dr. Peter C.M. Molenaar Pennsylvania State University Dept. Human Development & Family Studies University Park PA 16802 105, Henderson Bldg. S. USA
Prof. Nandita Chaudhary University of Delhi Lady Irwin College Sikandra Road New Delhi-110001 India
ISBN: 978-0-387-95921-4 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-95922-1
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-95922-1
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Preface
Dynamic Nature of Phenomena and its Study This book has a clear mission—to restore the focus on the dynamic side of the social and psychological processes that are the object of interest for the social sciences. Such focus was there in the social sciences in the first decades of the 20th century. It was subsequently lost. The reasons for such loss are still awaiting a careful scholarly analysis—which would belong to the (so far non-existing) area of developmental sociology of science. While the ways in which scientists function have been subjected to careful ethnographic investigations in sociology of science (Knorr-Cetina, 1999) that coverage has excluded a look at the dynamic interchange between developing society and—within it—a developing science. Study of such social relations in their transformation of the society would amount to developmental sociology. Zeitgeists change. By the end of the 20th century the focus on the study of processes (rather than outcomes)—through the
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