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Psychological and Social Structures

Psychological and Social Structures

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The book explores the assumptions and implications of a closely related group of concepts in depth, exploring the dynamic (energetic) conceptualization of psychological and social phenomena and the processes by which these structures grow and develop.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 326 pages
Publication date: 16 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


Originally published in 1984, this work is organized into three parts. Each part consists of several related chapters. Each chapter delves deeply into the assumptions and implications of a closely related group of concepts. Part 1 explores the concept of structure. It considers notions such as content, context, constraint, unity, integrity, and the hierarchical and nucleate forms of organization. Part 2 critically examines the dynamic (energetic) conceptualization of psychological and social phenomena. Thus, this part considers concepts such as energy, entropy, activity, confirmation, discrepancy, and resistance, as they apply to and affect the stability, activity, and changes observed in psychological and social structures. The relationship among the biological (metabolic), psychological, and social levels of analysis is explored from a simplified thermodynamic point of view. In Part 3, these earlier considerations are brought to bear upon the processes by which these structures grow and develop. It explores the concept of development itself, as well as related issues such as the levels-by-stages model of development, the distinction between intrastructural and intergenerational development, the orthogenic principles, the process of primordial differentiation and integration, development as a dialectical process, and the relationship between growth and development. The Epilogue briefly indicates some of the implications of the present thesis for future empirical and theoretical investigations.


Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367495398

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