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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Growth of Awareness and Introspection in History. Mystical Interpretations of Mental Activities and of Social or Physical IncidentsGeorg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Jörn Rüsen, Helmut SpinnerHistorians, philologists and scholars of antiquity have described how people in pre-modern societies tend to see their own thought processes, decisions and actions as being influenced and made by external forces. It was recognized early on that this mystical interpretation of actions could be an indication of a different structuring of the archaic psyche. It was claimed that this psyche … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 16, Issue 1 · 5 Aug 2020 · 6,811 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Role of Developmental Psychology to Understanding History, Culture and Social ChangeGeorg W. OesterdiekhoffDevelopmental psychology of the past generations has evidenced that the whole pre-modern humankind stood on pre-operational or concrete-operational stages. Only the modern humankind has also developed the fourth stage of human development, the adolescent stage of formal operations. Lew Vygotski was 1933 one of the first to earmark convincingly the connection of socialisation (school education) and cognitive development as a … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 4 · 29 Jan 2015 · 12,911 accessesView PDF Cite