Alterity, Values, and Socialization by Angela Uchoa Branco & Maria Cláudia Lopes-de-Oliveira

Author:Angela Uchoa Branco & Maria Cláudia Lopes-de-Oliveira
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Youth and Adult Development

Human development is a broad and systemic phenomenon that involves a psychological synthesis of interdependent organismic, psychic, social, and relational processes. According to this perspective, human development leads to higher levels of hierarchic organization of the psyché, paving the way for unique and the intrinsically diverse personal events occurring in the irreversible time (Carvalho, 1996; Valsiner, 2002; Zittoun, 2007).

Interpreting human development implies in providing abstract models that can guide the movements of the researcher in the effort to make sense of human beings as a systemic totality. Individuals are here conceived as agentic subjects, who intentionally perform different activities together with other subjects in the context of concrete activity systems. Agency is a developmental force that converts persons into transformative managers of their environments, thus exerting some control over their lives’ circumstances (Macmillan, 2007). Any consistent interpretive frame in psychological research has to consider the imbrication of personal, environmental, cultural, and societal levels of change in the irreversible time. In other words, human development is a complex, nonlinear process (Zittoun, 2007; Zittoun et al., 2013), in which each specific event reverberates over the totality of the person. Following this perspective, a scientific approach to human development needs seriously to take into account the following principles:1.Development is a multicausal and complex phenomenon in space and time; to approach the inherent complexity of human development, one needs to go beyond purely descriptive or standardized scientific models;

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