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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "External World (Interaction)"
Split Justification: All external interactions fundamentally involve either other human beings (social, cultural, relational, political) or the non-human aspects of existence (physical environment, objects, technology, natural world). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Interaction with Humans"
Split Justification: All human interaction can be fundamentally categorized by its primary focus: either on the direct connection and relationship between specific individuals (from intimate bonds to fleeting encounters), or on the individual's engagement within and navigation of larger organized human collectives, their rules, roles, and systems. This dichotomy provides a comprehensive and distinct division between person-to-person dynamics and person-to-society dynamics.
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From: "Social Systems and Structures"
Split Justification: All social systems and structures can be fundamentally categorized by whether their rules, roles, and organization are explicitly codified, institutionalized, and formally enforced (formal systems), or are unwritten, emergent, culturally embedded, and maintained through custom, tradition, and implicit social pressure (informal systems). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a system's primary mode of operation is either formal or informal, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of collective human organization.
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From: "Informal Social Systems"
Split Justification: All informal social systems can be fundamentally divided into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories: those focused on the collective, unwritten understandings, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs that guide behavior (Shared Meaning and Norms), and those focused on the spontaneous, interactional processes and structures of influence, status, reputation, and cohesion that arise within groups (Emergent Social Dynamics). One describes the content and collective interpretation of the informal system, while the other describes the interactive mechanisms and relational outcomes.
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From: "Shared Meaning and Norms"
Split Justification: The node "Shared Meaning and Norms" encompasses both the collective cognitive frameworks by which a group understands and interprets the world (its 'meaning' and 'beliefs') and the collective evaluative and prescriptive frameworks that guide appropriate action and interaction (its 'values' and 'norms'). This split fundamentally divides these two aspects into a category focused on the descriptive understanding of reality and a category focused on the prescriptive principles and patterns of behavior within that reality.
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From: "Shared Values and Behavioral Norms"
Split Justification: This node fundamentally comprises two distinct types of collective prescriptions: the abstract, guiding principles and ideals that a group deems good, desirable, or important (Shared Values), and the specific, often unwritten rules and expectations for conduct that dictate appropriate behavior in various situations (Shared Behavioral Norms). This split separates the underlying ethical/moral compass from its practical manifestations in collective conduct, creating a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division of the parent concept.
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From: "Shared Values"
Split Justification: Shared Values, representing the abstract, guiding principles and ideals of a group, can be fundamentally divided into two categories: those that articulate the collective's ultimate goals, aspirations, and ideal conditions of existence (desired end-states), and those that define the collective's preferred styles, qualities, and ways of behaving that are deemed intrinsically good or correct (desired modes of conduct). This distinction is mutually exclusive, as an end-state is distinct from a mode of conduct, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of abstract collective ideals, without descending into specific behavioral rules which are covered by 'Shared Behavioral Norms'.
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From: "Shared Desired End-States"
Split Justification: Shared Desired End-States, representing the collective's ultimate goals, aspirations, and ideal conditions of existence, can be fundamentally divided into two categories. The first focuses on the tangible resources, physical security, health, and environmental stability essential for the group's well-being and survival (Material and Physical Conditions). The second focuses on the intangible aspects of collective life, such as justice, freedom, equality, social harmony, knowledge, and moral integrity (Societal and Ethical Qualities). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as an ideal end-state is primarily centered on either the material/physical realm or the societal/ethical realm, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of a group's collective aspirations for its ideal existence.
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From: "Shared Desired Societal and Ethical Qualities"
Split Justification: The node "Shared Desired Societal and Ethical Qualities" encompasses intangible aspirations for a collective. These can be fundamentally divided into two categories: those pertaining to the organization, arrangements, and interactive dynamics among members within the collective (e.g., justice, freedom, equality, social harmony), and those pertaining to the intrinsic virtues, intellectual capacity, and overall quality of the collective entity itself (e.g., knowledge, moral integrity). This dichotomy separates ideals concerning the structure and functioning of society from ideals concerning the inherent character and aspirational quality of the collective. It is mutually exclusive as a desired quality is primarily about either societal structure/relationships or collective essence/virtue, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of the parent node.
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From: "Shared Desired Social Order and Relational Qualities"
Split Justification: Shared Desired Social Order and Relational Qualities, representing aspirations for the organization and dynamics among members, can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary focus of the desired state is the autonomy, freedoms, and entitlements of individual members within the collective, or the unity, stability, and equitable functioning of the collective as a whole. This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as an ideal quality primarily emphasizes either individual standing or collective integrity, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of desired social arrangements and relational dynamics among group members.
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From: "Shared Desired Collective Cohesion and Equity"
Split Justification: The node "Shared Desired Collective Cohesion and Equity" encompasses two fundamental, distinct, and comprehensively exhaustive aspects of collective well-being. The first pertains to the unity, solidarity, integration, and stability of the collective (Cohesion), focusing on the strength of the bonds that hold it together. The second pertains to the fairness, impartiality, and just distribution of resources, opportunities, and treatment within the collective (Equity). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as a desired state of collective unity is distinct from a desired state of internal fairness, and together they comprehensively cover all aspirations relating to the overall harmonious and just functioning of a collective.
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Topic: "Shared Desired Collective Cohesion" (W5420)