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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 Behavioral Norms"
Split Justification: This dichotomy categorizes shared behavioral norms based on their perceived importance for group welfare and the severity of social sanctions for their violation. Social Mores are norms deemed essential for the group's moral integrity or survival, violations of which evoke strong social condemnation. Social Folkways are norms of customary conduct and etiquette, violations of which elicit milder disapproval or social awkwardness. This creates a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division by the fundamental 'weight' or 'gravity' of the behavioral expectation within informal social systems.
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From: "Social Folkways"
Split Justification: This dichotomy splits social folkways based on whether they primarily regulate direct interactions and communication between individuals (Folkways of Interpersonal Engagement) or if they primarily dictate appropriate general behavior, self-presentation, and decorum within specific social contexts or environments, often independent of direct, reciprocal interaction with a particular person (Folkways of Situational Conduct). This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division by distinguishing norms centered on relational dynamics from those centered on contextual propriety.
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From: "Folkways of Interpersonal Engagement"
Split Justification: All interpersonal engagement, regulated by folkways, fundamentally relies on either spoken or written language and its related aspects (verbal communication) or on non-linguistic cues, gestures, body language, facial expressions, and spatial relationships (non-verbal communication). This dichotomy provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division based on the two primary and distinct channels through which individuals directly interact and communicate.
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From: "Folkways of Verbal Interpersonal Engagement"
Split Justification: All customary rules for verbal interpersonal engagement fundamentally pertain either to the substance of what is communicated (the topics discussed, the specific words chosen for their semantic implications or social acceptability, and the truthfulness of statements) or to the manner in which the communication unfolds (the style of delivery such as tone and volume, the conversational flow, and the structural aspects like turn-taking and initiation/conclusion of dialogue). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a folkway primarily guides either the 'what' or the 'how' of verbal communication, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of verbal engagement.
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From: "Folkways of Verbal Delivery and Conversational Structure"
Split Justification: The node "Folkways of Verbal Delivery and Conversational Structure" encompasses all customary rules for the manner in which verbal communication unfolds. This can be fundamentally divided into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories. The first category, Folkways of Verbal Delivery Style, pertains to the customary rules guiding an individual speaker's vocal characteristics and presentation attributes (e.g., tone, volume, pace, articulation). The second category, Folkways of Conversational Structure, pertains to the customary rules governing the interactive framework and sequential progression of dialogue between speakers (e.g., turn-taking, topic initiation, conversation closure). One focuses on the individual's performance of speech, while the other focuses on the collective organization of the verbal exchange.
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Topic: "Folkways of Conversational Structure" (W7404)