Toward a Mesogenetic Methodology

Abstract

The idea a mesogenetic methodology arises from general proposition that to understand behavior means to understand history/genesis behavior. This proposition has long been acknowledged as a fundamental tenet cultural-historical approaches to study human nature. The idea that the end in is in beginning is intuitively shared in many philosophical and religious traditions as well as tenets modern biology. The authors experienced this insight as part process that led them to formulate notion mesogenetic methodology. The key experience emerged from initial research plan. During early 1990s author's theorizing 5th Dimension was heavily focused on design of activity itself, occasions in which children, undergraduates, and research came together within domain Wizard/ess. Keywords: 5th Dimension; cultural-historical approaches; historical psychologists; mesogenetic methodology; modern biology; philosophical traditions; religious tradition; religious traditions