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Pretending to conceive and to know the mechanisms of sociogenesis is to posit oneself in the position of the master of the universe. Indeed, if sociogenesis covers the social and historical forms of individual development, and if the mechanisms point to the ways of producing and transforming these forms, a good theory of these mechanisms can only be established from a central and very powerful position, which would even enable an anticipation of future forms of development.
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Maier, R. (1994). Questioning the Mechanism of Sociogenesis. In: de Graaf, W., Maier, R. (eds) Sociogenesis Reexamined. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2654-3_8
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