Transfer of Specific Moment to General Knowledge: Suggestions from Cultural Developmental Autoethnography and Autoethnographic Trajectory Equifinality Modeling

This study aims to describe and analyze the career decision-making of the first author in the context of life trajectory using autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling (Auto-TEM). The life story and analysis of the first author indicate that career decision-making is a constant pre-constructive process in the life trajectory of an individual. This process is a semiotic and trans-action one between the individual and society. In other words, career decision-making is an issue of the cultural psychology of dynamic semiosis, which is concerned with understanding the manner in which the life trajectory of a person promotes or inhibits socio-culturalism and not only a subject of matching and self-esteem. Alternatively, we emphasize that career decision-making for an individual is an act of meaning with a unique ontological aspect. We propose the value of Auto-TEM as a qualitative method for describing such a dynamic career decision-making process. The autoethnographic viewpoint renders possible the understandings of the dynamics of the personal–collective culture synthesis for the subject.

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“…4. Part of this figure (Period 3) was also published in Tsuchimoto (2021) and analyzed from a different perspective than this study. 5.…”

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“…However, autoethnographers frequently consider culture an ontologically given entity. As such, the attention given to developmental aspects is scarce (Tsuchimoto, 2021). This insufficiency necessitates a methodological elaboration for conducting autoethnography in cultural psychology.…”

Section: Autoethnographic Temmentioning

confidence: 99%

Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling

Tsuchimoto

Sato

2022

Culture & Psychology

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“…The human ability of cultivating oneself is in its first layer only a constructive externalization of the own imagination, which alternatively can be described as process of forming ourselves and with it our environment to a form that we believe, based on the projections into the future, to be more likely to bring us inner satisfaction (Tsuchimoto, 2021;Vygotsky, 2004;Valsiner, 2009;Zittoun & Cerchia, 2013). At the same time, the process of cultivation automatically interferes in the environment and with it into the cultivation-zones of other beings leading to intensive dialogues between the selves (Hermans, 2014;Bisgaard et al in press) and their impacted environment-including the sharing of information in unconscious, subconscious, and conscious form.…”

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Cultivation of Humanity: How we can stagnate within the eternal flow

Campill

2022

Culture & Psychology

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By introducing Taoism— the understanding of flow—and the meaning of cultivation as a basic human ability, an essential challenge in our current understanding of science can be discovered. Human interaction with nature is a meaningful process, which can reveal a better understanding of the inner cultivation processes and with it a multidimensional field of endless inputs triggering an ongoing process of growth. For this purpose, MyCu-cultivation ( My cultural cultivation) is introduced as new terminology. A construct that allows to separately elaborate the social concepts of culture and the process of metaphysical reality perception—generated in our mind. At the same time, the layers of physical experienced reality and imagination are reintroduced in an alternative interrelation, leading to new insights in the layers of metaphysical understandings. Therefore, the central manifestation of meaning-making will be elaborated through the metaphorical use of bookshelves, allowing to perceive new insights in the raw information processing of individuals—underlining the human limitations, in processing the overwhelming meaning flow. This theoretical knowledge leads us further to a new possibility of understanding the constructive externalization of the imagination, highlighting the diversity of phenomenological insights in our everyday life, resulting in a complex theoretical repositioning between semiotics, cultural psychology, and Naturwissenschaften.

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“…So that the mereotopology, view of the topological relationships between wholes, parts, and borders can become central tools that allow to extend the qualitative theoretical understanding of the meaning-making, by underlining the crucial importance of the autoethnographic reflections for individuals and for the future ongoing of cognitive based research in the Nano moment, a nanopsychological perspective, (Valsiner, 2018a; Tsuchimoto, 2021). Making us as researcher not only observers, but central participants in the process of creating meaning and re-thinking meaning in the transition of observed information to memorize-able-knowledge of others.…”

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Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move

Campill

Tsuchimoto

2022

Culture & Psychology

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In the following paper, we aim for an extended understanding of the most crucial phenomena itself, the generation of meaning in the interaction with—what we describe as reality. The cultural psychological core principles are re-introduced and connected to a new more holistic construction, elaborating the generation of new meaning. In the same context, new terminology will be introduced, crucial for the understanding of the from phenomenology generated perspective toward cognitive processes and their interrelation with the everyday life. Borders not only as separator but also as deep connector of meaning are for this purpose explored and reintroduced. A procedure that led to central understandings that go far beyond the simple definitions accessible in dictionaries. As significant organic metaphor the river and the meadow (Towards a wholistic model of identity: Why not a meadow? Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 55(1), 112–127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09588-3) will be used and extended by the rabbit hole, a triggered process extending the imagination of individuals by the central counter movement against streams and Gegenstände.

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Transfer of Specific Moment to General Knowledge: Suggestions from Cultural Developmental Autoethnography and Autoethnographic Trajectory Equifinality Modeling

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Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling

Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling

Cultivation of Humanity: How we can stagnate within the eternal flow

Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move

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