Prospective Theory

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Prospective Theory is written by DAVID L. COOPERRIDER and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1734845015 (ISBN 10) and 9781734845013 (ISBN 13).

Engaged research and qualitative theory building in the social sciences are among the greatest adventures and significant vocations life can present. The impact of good theory, no matter how tiny or vast, can instantly move across our intimate planet and affect every human and living system in this interconnected, relationally alive, and reverberating universe. Ideas change the world. Ideas can be about life and they can be life-giving in the sense that they can inspire, enliven, and open us to new horizons and new depths. A new idea, especially the idea whose time has come in a prospective and betterment sense, does more than inform: it transforms. We've all experienced it. A single new understanding can change us deeply.This book-emerging from the needs and urging of David's doctoral students and those who care about engaged scholarship-is about the craft of grounded and future-forming theory construction. It's a way of doing research in the human sciences that exists, in William James' contrast, "not as a dull habit but as an acute fever." This book, today used in doctoral research courses and masters programs in organization development, unites the original purpose of Appreciative Inquiry with the domains of grounded theory, generative theory, enlivenment world-views, and the art and science of portraiture. Taken together this volume provides a manifesto and clear framework for prospective theory-building. Prospective theory is:1. Theory inspired by life, and it is designed to apprehend the best in all of life's fullest, most meaningful, and best future possibilities while being grounded in the midst of the extraordinary, the ordinary, as well as the tragic;2. Has the enlivenment and generative capacity to challenge the status quo and open the world to new better possibilities for life and living;3. Articulates a future story of prospective possibility. It involves a proleptic merging of the ideal conditioned in the texture of the actual-e.g., vivid utopias that are right there in front of us-informing our future story for establishing the new and eclipsing the old.