Collected Papers on Trajectory Equifinality Approach

This booklet consists of some papers on the Trajectory Equifinality Approach (TEA). TEA has become a common

"methodology" used worldwide in cultural psychology. This booklet will help researchers who have an interest in describing the process of human life course. TATSUYA SATO is professor in the College of Comprehensive Psychology at Ritsumeikan University. Executive director of the Division of General Planning and Development at the Ritsumeikan Trust. Ph.D. (Tohoku University, 2002).

Contents

Part 1 Chronogenesis: Introduction to TEM

Chapter 1 Time in Life and Life in Time

Part 2 Emergence of TEM

Chapter 2 Minding Money

Chapter 3 Development, Change or Transformation

Chapter 4 Beyond Dichotomy

Part 3 Development of TEM

Chapter 5 Sampling Reconsidered

Chapter 6 Depicting the Dynamics of Living the Life

Chapter 7 The Authentic Culture of Living Well

Appendix

Appendix 1 Historically Structured Sampling (HSS)

Appendix 2 Brief Practice for Using Trajectory Equifinality Modeling (TEM)