Personality Is a Proces: Culturally Assembled, and Maintained

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Personality Is a Proces: Culturally Assembled, and Maintained

Pete Giordano's main claim and the theme of the workshop is: “What we do know is that we can observe patterns of process that help us understand this particular individual in his or her always transitory contexts.  These patterns of process, then, point to greater or lesser degrees of individual responsiveness to environmental contexts.  Such patterns need not suggest a substance (e.g., trait or self) “within” the person.  This is an important shift in ontological thinking, and moves us away from a structural description of the person (or group) to an event-based, process-centric Becoming explanation at the individual level.”

READINGS

Giordano, P. (2016). Individual Personality is Best Understood as Process, Not Structure. Paper in preparation.

Nedergaard, J. I., Valsiner, J., and Marsico, G. (2015). “I am not that kind of…”: Personal relating with social borders. In B. Wagoner, N. Chaudhary and P.  Hviid (Eds.), Integrating experiences: Body and mind moving between contexts (pp. 245-263). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers.

Valsiner, J., and Brinkmann, S. (2017). Beyound “the variables”: Developing metalanguage in psychology. In H. Klempe and R. Smith (Eds.), Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Vol 14.  New York: Springer.

Welzer, H. (2004). Mass murderer and the moral code: some thoughts on an easily misunderstood subject.  History of the Human Sciences, 17, 2-3, 15-32

COMMENTARY

Galina Hristova Angelova-Vindfeldt (Niels Bohr Professorship Centre, Aalborg Universitet)