Comments on “A Bio-Cultural-Historical Approach to the Study of Development (2016)”

By Razie Mah

Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego) and Martin Packer (University of Andes, Bogota) posted a draft of their contribution to volume 6 of Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology on academia.com. The title of their essay is “A Bio-Cultural Historical Approach to the Study of Development”. Cole and Packer point to an emerging consensus among cultural-developmental scientists.
This work summarizes, comments on, and re-articulates Cole and Packer’s unfolding ideas. The category-based nested form serves as a template for re-displaying their points in a semiotic framework. The results are a bit strange, but that should not deter anyone, because the ‘the topic of culture and human ontogeny’ informs us about who we are.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Razie Mah
• Release date: Nov 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781942824220

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Comments on A Bio-Cultural-Historical Approach to the Study of Development (2016)

Razie Mah

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Abstract

This essay comments on (a draft of) Michael Cole’s and Martin Packer’s essay ‘A Bio-Cultural Historical Approach to the Study of Development’, slated to appear in volume 6 of Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, edited by M. J. Gelfand, C. Chui and Y. Hong.

This work does not use modern analytic methods, which operate within the logic of non-contradiction. Instead, the postmodern category-based nested form associates inquiry to three categories of existence, each with its own logic.

The results are instructive. They should be of interest to biologists, anthropologists, and historians investigating why human development is ‘the way it is’.

Single quotes and italics are used to group words together.

Prerequisites include A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form and A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction.

Table of Contents

Introduction 0001

Current Areas of Consensus 0016

Two Examples 0032

Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a Possible Meta-theory 0040

A Quick Review 0059

How does CHITCHAT illuminate the human niche? 0066

Culture, Human Ontogenesis and Organization 0082

Growing Pains 0085

Conclusion 0110

Introduction

0001 Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego) and Martin Packer (University of Andes, Bogota) posted a draft of their contribution to volume 6 of Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology on academia.com. I suppose they sought comments before going to press. However, the timeline is unclear. The post probably occurred in spring of 2015. These comments are written in the fall of 2015.

0002 Cole and Packer point to an emerging consensus