A Developmental Approach to Social Science: A Model for Analyzing Charles Alexander's Scientific Contributions |
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| Authors: | William R. Torbert |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA 52557, USA |
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| Abstract: | A seven-paradigm developmental model of social science is presented (behaviorism, gestalt sociologism, empirical positivism, multi-method eclecticism, postmodern interpretivism, cooperative ecological inquiry, and developmental action inquiry). Charles Alexander's research is interpreted as bridging aspects of several paradigms, using third-person empirical positivist experiments to demonstrate the effects of a first-person research/practice called Transcendental Meditiation. The author suggests the possibility of complementing current research on TM with explicit double- and triple-loop research on the second- and third-person practices within the TM movement. |
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| Keywords: | Scientific paradigms first-person research practice third person research practice double loop research triple loop research |
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