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Germany and United States
Entries rooted in Germany and United States.
3 entries
Concept
Idiographic versus Nomothetic Approaches
The split between studying general laws that hold across people and understanding the single individual in depth.
9 min
TraditionThe Frankfurt School
A tradition of Marxist social theory that turned from economics to culture, asking why reason and enlightenment produced domination rather than freedom.
12 min
ConceptWisdom and Successful Aging
What psychology actually finds when it measures wisdom and studies who ages well: some abilities decline, others hold or grow, and wisdom is rarer and less age-bound than the folk picture assumes.
10 min