34. Development, Individual and Cultural: A Deep Dive (w/ Daniel Görtz)

Metamodern sociologist Daniel Görtz joins Brendan Graham Dempsey to dig deeper into the nuances of developmental theory and how it can be applied at the individual and collective levels. Are individuals "at" a stage of development, or do they occupy a range of complexity? With all the distributional ranges involved in individual development, how can we make assessments about entire cultural worldviews? Daniel digs into the nuances of the Model of Hierarchical Complexity, exploring unpublished theories and ideas of Michael Commons and himself as they relate to thinking about conceptual complexification for people and societies.0:00 IntroductionPart I: Individual Development2:28 Are People "at" a Stage or Thinking/Behaving Across a Distribution?5:12 The MHC vs. Holistic, Whole-Person Models10:11 Transjective Behavioral Complexity: Context and Scaffolding25:17 Cognitive Ranges, Cognitive Ceilings30:22 Piaget and BeyondPart II: Cultural Development33:04 Are Ideas "at" a Stage?42:16 Are Cultural Worldviews "at" a Stage?56:44 The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution1:20:36 Pattern and Medium1:32:16 Problems and Progress: Nothing for Granted Get full access to Brendan Graham Dempsey at brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/subscribe