Relationism and Relational Developmental Systems: A Paradigm for Developmental Science in the Post-Cartesian Era

被引:92
作者
Overton, Willis F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Temple Univ, Dept Psychol, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
来源
EMBODIMENT AND EPIGENESIS: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF BIOLOGY WITHIN THE RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEM, PT A: PHILOSOPHICAL, THEORETICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS | 2013年 / 44卷
关键词
DYNAMIC-SYSTEMS; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; PSYCHOLOGY; EXPLANATION; ORGANICISM; METATHEORY; COGNITION; NURTURE;
D O I
10.1016/B978-0-12-397947-6.00002-7
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
This chapter argues that the Cartesian-split-mechanistic scientific paradigm that until recently functioned as the standard conceptual framework for subfields of developmental science (including inheritance, evolution, and organismic prenatal, cognitive, emotional, motivational, sociocultural-development) has been progressively failing as a scientific research program. An alternative scientific paradigm composed of nested metatheories with relationism at the broadest level and relational developmental systems as a midrange metatheory is offered as a more progressive conceptual framework for developmental science. Termed broadly the relational developmental systems paradigm, this framework accounts for the findings that are anomalies for the old paradigm; accounts for the emergence of new findings; and points the way to future scientific productivity.
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页数:44
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