Book contents
- A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
- A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Cybernetic Sociopsychology and Agency
- Part II From Cognition to Affect
- Part III Modelling Identity Types through Agency
- Part IV Formal Possibilities in Mindset Agency Theory
- Chapter 13 Introduction to Psychohistory and Formalism
- Chapter 14 Illustrating Psychohistory
- Summarising Narrative for Part IV
- Part V Conclusion
- Book part
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Chapter 13 - Introduction to Psychohistory and Formalism
from Part IV - Formal Possibilities in Mindset Agency Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2021
- A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
- A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Cybernetic Sociopsychology and Agency
- Part II From Cognition to Affect
- Part III Modelling Identity Types through Agency
- Part IV Formal Possibilities in Mindset Agency Theory
- Chapter 13 Introduction to Psychohistory and Formalism
- Chapter 14 Illustrating Psychohistory
- Summarising Narrative for Part IV
- Part V Conclusion
- Book part
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Sociohistory refers to: social event history that occurs in the past or future using appropriate formal theory; is concerned with the microcosms of social interaction; describes and explains practical situations; and with sufficient information, can predict either long-term large-scale or short-term small-scale sociocultural events (Yolles & Frieden, 2006). Sociohistorical inquiry involves wicked problems: those having a variety of dynamic event states and essential variables with values and relationships that may be hidden and therefore unknown or indeterminable (Churchman, 1967). Sociohistory is therefore perspective relative. To be convincing it thus requires multiple perspectives from a plurality of participating inquirers (Reiss & Sprenger, 2014).
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- A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency TheoryA Formative Trait Psychology with Affect, Cognition and Behaviour, pp. 435 - 469Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021