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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 Modes of Conduct"
Split Justification: All modes of conduct valued by a collective (within the scope of human interaction) are either primarily oriented towards regulating relationships and behaviors among its own members (intra-group), or towards guiding the collective's interactions with other human groups or individuals outside itself (inter-group). This division is mutually exclusive, as a mode of conduct's primary orientation is either internal or external to the group's human interactions, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering the full scope of a group's desired ways of human-related behaving.
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From: "Shared Modes for Inter-Group Conduct"
Split Justification: This node represents the abstract principles guiding a group's collective behavior towards other human groups or individuals outside itself. This split fundamentally divides these modes into those primarily focused on the group's active engagement, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building with other external entities (Direct Inter-Group Interaction), and those primarily focused on the group's self-preservation, maintenance of its distinct identity, protection of its internal integrity, and assertion of its autonomy within the broader inter-group environment (Inter-Group Identity and Security). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a mode of conduct's primary orientation is either outward-facing and relational or inward-focused and protective/definitional; it is also comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental ways a group might value its conduct in the inter-group sphere.
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From: "Shared Modes for Inter-Group Identity and Security"
Split Justification: The node "Shared Modes for Inter-Group Identity and Security" encompasses values related to defining and maintaining the group's distinct self and safeguarding its existence and integrity within the broader inter-group environment. This split fundamentally divides these modes into those primarily focused on the collective's active shaping, assertion, and preservation of its unique character, culture, and boundaries relative to other groups (Self-Definition and Distinction), and those primarily focused on safeguarding its physical survival, territorial integrity, resources, and freedom from external domination or existential threats (Protection and Autonomy). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a mode's primary orientation is either towards defining "who we are" or ensuring "that we endure"; it is also comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental ways a group might value its conduct in maintaining its identity and security.
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From: "Shared Modes for Inter-Group Self-Definition and Distinction"
Split Justification: The node "Shared Modes for Inter-Group Self-Definition and Distinction" encompasses values related to how a group defines and differentiates itself from other groups. This split fundamentally divides these modes into those primarily focused on the group's active demonstration, communication, and championing of its unique characteristics, values, and culture to other groups (Asserting and Projecting), and those primarily focused on maintaining its distinct separation, regulating its membership, and protecting its cultural integrity from external influences and assimilation (Preserving Boundaries and Uniqueness). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a mode of conduct's primary orientation is either outward-facing assertion or inward-focused preservation; it is also comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental ways a group might value its conduct in establishing and maintaining its identity and distinctness in an inter-group context.
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Topic: "Shared Modes for Preserving Group Boundaries and Uniqueness" (W7084)