Brendan Graham Dempsey | Metamodern Spirituality | Ego Development and Normativity (w/ Susanne Cook-Greuter) @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Renowned developmental psychologist Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter joins me to discuss her model of Ego Developmental Theory. After talking a little about the theory, we move into a discussion of implications and contemporary criticisms. Are stage models inherently "colonialist"? Do the values of social scientific stage theories hold an implicit Western bias? How would we evaluate development without values? Are such evaluative models helpful or harmful for orienting our solutions to global problems? How "open" is the scoring methodology to scrutiny?

1:30 Susanne's Background
5:29 A Key Contribution: 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-Person Perspective
10:28 The Individual/Collective Feedback Cycle
12:55 Cognitive Complexity and Development: Some WEIRD Baggage
18:24 Relationship to Wilber's Work
19:40 Relationship to Piaget's Work
21:21 Development, Distribution, and Normativity
24:55 Methodology
35:16 Normatively WEIRD? Development, Neo-Colonialism, Environmentalism
57:09 Misusing Ego Development
58:50 Further Work

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