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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 Mores"
Split Justification: Social Mores, representing norms deemed essential for a group's moral integrity or survival, can be fundamentally divided based on the primary aspect of the group's existence they are intended to safeguard. The first category encompasses norms that prohibit actions directly threatening the physical safety, health, or material resources of individuals or the collective (Mores Safeguarding Physical and Material Well-being). The second category includes norms that prohibit actions seen as undermining the group's fundamental moral principles, shared identity, social cohesion, or spiritual integrity, often manifesting as prohibitions against deep-seated taboos or sacrilege (Mores Safeguarding Moral and Social Identity). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as each more primarily addresses one type of threat, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all critical dimensions of a group's 'moral integrity' and 'survival'.
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From: "Mores Safeguarding Moral and Social Identity"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally divides mores safeguarding moral and social identity based on the aspect of the group they primarily protect. The first category encompasses norms that prohibit actions seen as undermining the group's core ideational and spiritual identity—its fundamental shared beliefs, sacred elements, foundational moral tenets, and worldview. Violations are often perceived as heresy, sacrilege, or deep moral transgression against the group's essence. The second category comprises norms that prohibit actions seen as undermining the group's relational and structural integrity—its social cohesion, internal trust, mutual loyalty, and collective stability. Violations are often perceived as betrayal, disloyalty, or subversion that threatens the group's ability to function as a unified entity. This split is mutually exclusive, as each more predominantly safeguards either the group's internal sense of self/truth or its external bonds/function, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all critical dimensions of safeguarding a group's moral and social identity.
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From: "Mores Prohibiting Offenses Against Group Cohesion and Allegiance"
Split Justification: This fundamental dichotomy divides mores prohibiting offenses against group cohesion and allegiance into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories. The first encompasses norms that protect the overarching integrity, unity, and authority of the collective entity itself (e.g., against internal division, rebellion, or external disloyalty). The second safeguards the essential bonds of trust, reliability, and mutual obligation between individual members within the group (e.g., against betrayal, deceit, or unreliability in personal interactions). This split differentiates between offenses that directly undermine the group's structure and its continued existence as a unified whole versus those that erode the crucial social fabric of its internal relationships.
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From: "Mores Prohibiting Offenses Against Interpersonal Trust and Reciprocity"
Split Justification: ** The node "Mores Prohibiting Offenses Against Interpersonal Trust and Reciprocity" fundamentally comprises two distinct types of collective prescriptions. This dichotomy divides these mores based on whether the offense primarily undermines the veracity and authenticity of interactions (Deceitful Communication and Dishonest Representation), focusing on breaches of truthfulness, honesty, and accurate information, or whether the offense primarily undermines fairness, equitable exchange, and the fulfillment of agreed-upon duties in shared endeavors (Exploitative Conduct and Failure to Uphold Mutual Obligations), focusing on breaches of reliability, reciprocity, and just treatment. This split is mutually exclusive, as each more predominantly addresses either the integrity of information or the integrity of action/exchange, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all critical dimensions of preserving interpersonal trust and reciprocity.
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Topic: "Mores Prohibiting Exploitative Conduct and Failure to Uphold Mutual Obligations" (W8044)