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In this article, we articulate an innovative framework, <i>manywheres</i>, and argue that it can advance the work of fostering youth-led change and progressive world-making. We first root psychological and development science in an applied framework of developing more just, harmonious, and tolerant social worlds. Then, we introduce <i>manywheres</i>, a guiding framework of propositions of attending to the complexity and nuance of meaning-making across individuals without becoming lost in nihilism, relativism, or ethnocentric views of social justice. This leads to the construction of a more holistic developmental lens considering the age-related, contextual, and internal factors that shape meaning-making individual trajectories and societal outcomes. <i>Manywheres</i> can thus structure thinking and research with an end goal of understanding the diversity of young people's engagement, activism, and disconnection. We end with mapping a research agenda applying these ideals, incorporating the methodological approaches that can be taken, concrete examples, and implications that can be applied to salient social issues.

Following an introduction by Jesse Lemisch to Weisstein's classic work "Psychology Constructs the Female; or the Fantasy Life of the Male Psychologist," Weisstein examines some controversies raised by Alan Sokal in his parody of postmodernist ideas about science, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" (1996). It is contended that the social constructionism characteristic of the resurgence of US feminism in the late 1960s has been turned against women. Feminist psychologists have come to advocate a scientific view of women that separates them from the context in which they live. The importance of inquiry into the nature of power & how people resist it is stressed, as is the need for women to develop a collective resistance to oppose power & authority. Feminist psychologists are criticized for having shortsightedly abandoned the principles of social constructionism & rejected the scientific method as inapplicable to the study of gender & gender differences. B. Wolfe