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A Table of Progress (updated once a month)
Planned Chapters of "The Many-Splendored Society"
Note that only chapters 1-15 are finished and edited.
Book 1: Surrounded by Symbols
Introduction: Layman's Society
Typographical Border Signs of Social Reality
Figure 1.1. The Grand Structuration of Europe
An Oscillation Ending in a longue conjoncture
Lifestyles of the Speaking Animal
Figure 1.3. Lifestyles Entirely Dependent on Language
Meadian and Saussurian Symbols
Figure 2.1. Semiotic Square Illustrated by the Opposite Femininity-Masculinity
Enter Our Master Trend: the Civil
Enlightened Language Brains and Gender Equality
Deficiencies of the Enlightenment
Post-Structuralism and Enlightenment
Mundane and Pristine Symbols: The Rise of Intellectuals
The Tension between the Mundane and the Pristine; The Problem of Praxis
Communication Technologies and Value Climates
Figure 3.1.
Communication Technologies and Shifts in Values
Modernity: Choosing The Old or The New
Instrumentality: Following Firm Principles or Accepting Compromises
Humanism: Putting Things or People First
Figure 3.2. The Three-dimensional Space of a Modern Symbolic Environment
Big and Lukewarm Centers vs Small and Convinced Extremes
An Illustration: From Virgil to Luther
Classification of Contemporary Symbolic Environments
by Combinations of Dialectic PrioritiesFigure 3.3. The Rich in Modern China in 2006 Placed in a Three-Dimensional Value Space
Inspiration from Analytic and Pragmatic Philosophy
A Bisection: Executive and Emotive Communications
A Trisection: Descriptive, Evaluative and Prescriptive
Emotive and Rational Aspects on Opinion Formation
Communication Technologies
Interactive Media Technology
Book 2:
Introduction: Finding the Social Order
A Beginning of a Taxonomy: Habits and Customs
Indirect and Electronic Encounters
Reaching beyond Dunbar's Number
Honest Knowledge about Large Populations
Public Opinion Polls as a Social Innovation
Structuration into Social Relations
Attributes of Social Relations
Figure 5.1. A Student in a US College for Adults
Figure 5.2. Long and Short-term Shifts in Mobilization of Actions
Two Societal Master Clusters: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Figure 5.3.
Attributes of Societal Master Clusters: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, and Social Movements
The Chicago School of Sociology Revisited
Figure 6:1. Overview of Communication Structures
Organizations Based on Use of Force
Freedom of Opinion in Organizations
The Sect: Part Network, Part Organization
Some Interplays of Organizations, Network and Media
Crossing Organizations and Networks
Figure 6.2. Cultures in the Group-grid, according to Mary Douglas
The Structuration of Public Opinion
Social Capital: Assets Acquired in Organizations, Networks, and Media
Grand Structuration: Weber Revised
Figure 7.1. Dominant Types of Communication in Grand Realms Accumulating to Different Cardinal Values
Rewards and Justifications in Cardinal Values
Figure 7.2. Cardinal Values and Visible Social Rewards
Some Intellectual Dividends from Deductions
Makers, Keepers, Brokers, and Takers
Figure 8.1. Internal Functions of Realms and their Manning
Figure 8.2. External Functions of Realms and their Manning
Figure 8.3. List of Possible Realm Procurers and Realm Providers
Organic Collaboration
Figure 8.4. Embedding Serves Cohesion
Stratification: Traditional Views
A New View: Language-based Stratification with Six Ladders
Figure 9.1. Cardinal Values and their Corresponding Stratifications
On Rationality in Grand Realms
Figure 9.2. Types of Rationality in Different Realms of Social Reality
Figure 9.3. Types of Freedom in Different Realms of Social Reality
On Spontaneous Orders in Grand Realms
Figure 9.4 Networks and Spontaneous Orders in Different Grand Realms
A Periodic
Table of Grand Societal Realms
Figure 9.5.
A Periodic Table of Societal Realms, i.e. the Grand Realms of Society Created by
the Language Brain
A First
Look at the Periodic Table of Societal Realms
A Political Message
Autonomy and Alienation
Book 3:
Chapter 10. Vocabularies of Justification
Enter Justifications
Justifications about Nature
Figure 10.1.
Four Justifications of Nature and Their Users
Finding Acceptable
Justifications
Clusters of Justifications
Justifications by Cardinal Values and in Societal Realms
Justifications in Organizations, Markets, and Media
Justifications by Makers, Keepers, Brokers, and Takers
Figure 10.2.
The Most
Congenial Ideologies for Major Societal Functions
Revolutionary
Vocabularies of Justification
Societal Creeds
Chapter 11. Vocabularies of Regulation
Civil Disobedience
Socially Designed Like-Dislikes
Ethnicity and Immigration in The United States
Ethnicity and Immigration in Europe
Figure 12.1. Ethnic and National Boarders in Europe in 1850Accumulation of Negative Self-appreciation
Vocabularies of Ostracism
Victimage and Redemption
Figure 16.1. Resetting Scales of Evaluation by Redemption Cycles
Book 4:
Six Realms Born Free and Equal
Introduction: Finding the Social Order*
Figure 17.1. Science in Society
The Cardinal Value of Knowledge
Figure 17.2. Semiotics of KnowledgeIllusions of Knowledge
Secret Knowledge
Key Social Norms in the Realm of ScienceStratification and Rewards in Science
A Self-Correcting Spontaneous Order
Compare the JournalistsUniversities as Spindles of Organizations, Networks, and Media for Knowledge
The Organization of ResearchProviding Knowledge to Functionaries of Other Realms
Rationalities in Science
Natural and Social Science; The Place of Mathematics
On Analysis
On Systems
Figure 19.2. Semiotics of Beauty
Kitsch
Beauty and Beast
Accumulation of Beauty
Art and Brain Functions
Stratification and Rewards in Art
Technology in the Creation of Art
Embedding Beauty
On Science and Art
Book 5*:
Introduction: Life and the Good Life*
Jobs in the Many-Splendored Society
Death in the Many-Splendored Society
Appendices:
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