Originally published in 1984, this work is organised in three
parts. Each part consists of several related chapters. Each chapter
explores the assumptions and implications of a closely related
group of concepts in depth. Part 1 explores what a structure is. It
considers such notions as content, context, constraint, unity,
integrity, and the hierarchical and nucleate forms of organization.
Part 2 critically explores the dynamic (energic) conceptualization
of psychological and social phenomena. Thus, this part considers
such notions 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 are
explored from a rather simplified thermodynamic point of view. In
Part 3 brings all these earlier considerations to bear upon the
processes by which these structures grow and develop. It explores
the concept of development itself, and such related issues 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 indicates
briefly some of the implications of the present thesis for future
empirical and theoretical investigations.
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