Social Transformation Laboratory 2007 > Summary

Affiliation: Eric J. Lindblom PhD, Harvard University h2o
Starts: 9/1/07      Ends:
Leaders: epsila
Keywords: harvard, lindblom, social transformation
Participants: 9 (view all)
Description:

lindblom, harvard

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• Background

"--- More than 411 women have been murdered and more than 500 disappeared among what is known today as "The Dead Women of Juárez," cases of mostly young, pretty women often found mutilated in the desert around Ciudad Juárez and elsewhere in the state of Chihuahua." http://crm.ncmonline.com .

"Many are strangled, and then stabbed repeatedly.” (4.)  
In terms of the severe abuse and violence of women in Mexico, the problem is the most alarming in Juárez. "In Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, an alarming four hundred and thirty-eight women have been victims of and murder, not to mention over a hundred women who remain missing.” (2.) The figures may well be higher (2-5,000).

• Aims and objectives
Project 14: Social Transformation proposes that disciplined inquiry shall be conducted in several areas particularly in social transformation: 1.) Research objectives, 2.) Research methods, 3.) Research design, 4.) Data gathering, 5.) Data analysis and 6.) Interlinking organizations internationally.

• Objectives

The Research Objective:  Analytical research is proposed for serious and in-depth psychological research using the scientific method in several concrete steps:

current research literature and significance,

objectives and hypotheses,

methods and approaches,

data perspectives and results,

solutions, discussion and publication.

It is understood that while the Project 14: Social Transformation is highly practical, the arena of pure theory shall be explored fully.

• Methods

The Research Method: If the overall objective is an analytical research then the study needs a solid and practical foundational basis in traditional psychological theory. A methodological research design shall be created with the foundational point of reference as General Systems Theory and The Psychology of Consciousness.

The multi-disciplinary approach is both needed and highly innovative. The application of the dreamwork is to a socially engaged spirituality area in Juarez, the dead women of Juarez.

Why psychology? A major problem in Juarez is terror. Terror is an emotion that is psychological. Investigative, media and legal solutions have been tried but the horrible problem has continued. The solution in Mexico is not in the investigative, media or legal arena as the limited success in the cases reported in the media has shown. The problem is psychological. It is suggested, here, that dreamwork is a psychological field and it is proposed that dreamwork can assist in finding solutions to the Juarez problem.

Research Design

Since the research area is psychological (terror), the research design has to be a psychological methodology in standard research analysis (General Systems Theory). The foundational theory, General Systems, is standard in Psychology. The application of systems thinking to socially engaged transformation is a relatively new area in psychology called, here, Social Transformation Psychology Systems Thinking. The application of systems thinking to social transformation is, also, highly innovative especially when accomplished from a deconstructionist perspective as is Project 14.

Data Gathering: Research data gathering and analysis shall use The Scientific Method defined as:

1.) Current research literature and significance,

2.) Objectives and hypotheses,

3.) Methods and approaches,

4.) Data perspectives and

5.) Results, solutions, discussion and publication.

Each of those modules shall be applied to social transformation creating a scientific protocol. That protocol should be considered as a defining product of Project 14 and is of value in itself.

Data Analysis: The data analysis shall scrutinize material using two or more standard Psychological techniques from General Systems Theory (i.e. Cybernetics, Critical Systems Heuristics).

Time shall be spent in dialogue interlinking academic institutions across borders to create lasting contacts.

Now involved are El Fundación Internacional para la Investigación de la Naturaleza del Hombre SC. (International Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man) or Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avazanda de la Conducta in an initial and exploratory collaboration with U.S. host Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California (Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.). It is arranged that supportive material exists online at Harvard University known as Project 14 coursework. This applicant is a H2O Project Leader at Berkman Center of Harvard Law School and this proposal problem is a current pilot research analysis at Harvard.

It is hoped that Saybrook would formalize the initial arrangements explored so far in Project 14.

Lindblom

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Linear Logical Summary:

What does Project 14 intend?

Eric J. Lindblom PhD

1. identification of researchable problem(s), define research categories

2. derive hypotheses, researchable questions, search and discovery

3. literature review of research, identify pilot projects, research design

4. develop methods, methodology, construction and deconstruction

5. data collection, data analysis, and trial facts identification

6. further systems analysis (vis a vis John Dewey)

7. falsification (vis a vis Karl Popper)

8. further identify systems, results, conclusions, discussion

9. peer review and interpretation(s).

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