0045 This primer comes third.

A nested form is composed a three elements.  The subscripts for each element are 1, 2 and 3.

An interscope is composed of three nested forms.  The subscripts for each level are a, b and c.

A three-tiered relational structure is composed of three interscopes.  The subscripts for each tier are A, B and C.

0046 In some specialized social circles, a three-tiered relational structure is called a “cake”.

Unfortunately, the term, “cake”, applied to the three-tiered relational structure, sounds half-baked.

0047 The individual in community_A is the first tier of this grand relational structure.

The discussion starts with a nested form, as depicted below.

0048 This nested form comes from theology.

A theological question gets raised, “What happens when a person dies?”

A theological answer is provided.

0049 Then, a three-level interscope for the individual in community is constructed by expanding each element of the “partially differentiated” nested form into a “fully differentiated” interscope.

Here is a comparison of the elements of the less differentiated nested form and the virtual nested form in the realm of normal context for the more differentiated interscope.

0050 The normal contexts are key psychological questions.

0051 Here is a picture of the resulting interscope.

0052 The three levels are content_a, situation_b and perspective_c.

These three levels constitute a nested form.  Perspective_c brings situation_b into relation with content_a.

A virtual nested form runs down each column, as noted in the prior blog, with the virtual nested form in the realm of normal context₃.

0053 There are nine elements.  An archetype highlights some elements and shadows others.  Jungian psychology explores archetypes.

0054 Finally, there is a powerful connection to one of the upper tiers.

Consider the element in the upper right corner of the above figure.

The perspective-level potential_1c is “rightfulness_1cA“.

Rightfulness_1cA connects to righteousness_1aC, a potential on the content-level_a of the upper tier_C.

0055 Here is a picture.

Sociology connects to psychology.

0056 The fourth primer introduces the organization tier.

The organization_B tier occupies the slot for actuality in a primal nested form.

The individual in community_A tier occupies the slot for possibility.

An unnamed upper_C tier labels the slot for normal context.

0057 Why is the upper_C tier not named?

Of course, the third_C tier has a label.

But, as soon as a label occupies the slot for normal context, the actuality of the organization_B tier gets turned.  The current term is “spin”.  For example, corporate media “spins” the “narrative”, into which organization_B-tier actualities appear to fit.

The issue of “spin” presents a great challenge for the disciplines of economics and sociology, which aim to scientifically study the phenomena of organizations.  Academics are tempted to judge the organization_B tier, as if the thing itself_B could be ethically evaluated.

0058 Take a look at the nested form for the organization_B tier.

Assessment_3B brings transactions_2B into relation with the potential of ‘people working together’_1B.

What do these words mean?

Every term tells a story.

Consequently, each element in the partially differentiated relational structure expands into a nested form, resulting in a three-level interscope.

Organization_B is not differentiated.

The nested form of assessment_3B, exchange_2B and ‘working together’_1B is partially differentiated.

The interscope with the levels of assessment_cB, exchange_bB and ‘working together’_aB is fully differentiated.

0058 How can an inquirer appreciate the three-levels of the organization_B tier?

Three metaphors encourage an intuitive grasp of these levels.  The family, the team and the tribe are social structures that belong to the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.  We innately anticipate these three social circles.

0059 But, there is a problem.

Our current Lebenswelt is not the same as the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.

In the Lebenswelt that we evolved in, all social circles work in harmony.  Intimates (5), family (5), teams (15), band (50), community (150), mega-band (500) and tribe (1500) co-evolve with humans.  Indeed, society, organization and individual in community are not differentiated.  Culture and nature co-evolve. So, our innate appreciation of the organization_B tier assists inquiry only so much.

0060 The inquirer must also find examples of the organization_B tier in our current Lebenswelt.

In the fourth primer I consider two historical examples and one pair of historical traumas.

Here is a list.

0061 The fifth primer further develops the organization_B tier.

Each of the three levels of the organization_B tier may further differentiate into interscopes.

In particular, the content level starts as a nested form.

0061 Then, this nested form expands into an interscope.

0062 Metaphors include the biological organism and the nuclear family.

Examples include the manor in medieval feudal society and the local bakery.

0063 The fifth primer of the organization_B tier wrestles with two interscopes.  The content-level becomes the corporation interscope.  The remaining situation and perspective levels remain nested forms.

Perhaps, one day, these, too, will differentiate into interscopes.

0064 For the moment, I want to focus on the content_a and the situation_b levels of organization_B tier.

Recall that a three-level interscope associates with social construction and a two-level interscope goes with sensible construction.  In the former, the perspective-level actuality serves as a social construction.  In the latter, the situation-level actuality operates as a sensible construction.

0065 Yes, both types of construction are in play. The corporation_aB, the content level of the organization_B tier, is sensibly situated by the situation level, exchange_bB.  But, the content_aB level is a three-level interscope.

So, the perspective level_c of the content-level_aB interscope has the same relational structure as social construction.  And, the situation_b level of the organization_B tier manifests the relational structure of sensible construction.

0066 Here is a picture.

0067 In sum, exchange_bB associates with sensible construction and the perspective_c level of the corporation_aB associates with social construction.

0068 So I ask, “How does the market_bB virtually situate the management_c level of a corporation_aB?”

0069 Consider biology.  The body is the actuality₂ in the perspective_c level of the corporation_aB interscope.  What actuality_2bB virtually situates the body_2caB?  Encountering the world_2bB does.

0070 How sensible is that?

0071 What happens when my body_2caB encounters the world_2bB?

Well, I see, hear, smell, touch and maybe, taste the world.  Also, I have feelings about those sensations.  The medieval scholastics have a word for this combination of sensations and feelings.  The Latin term is species impressa.  Say the word like you are ordering it in an Italian restaurant.

Does the term sound vaguely familiar?

What if I say that an impression is a dyadic actuality: active body [substantiates] sensate soul?

Does that help?

0072 Does the same relational structure apply to a commercial enterprise?

Here is a picture.

0073 Well, I suppose that a bakery business_2caB is like a body_2caB, even though I never thought that I am running my body like a business.  It seems that my body_2caB runs itself.

Also, I never imagined that a customer buying a loaf of bread_2bB is how a bakery encounters the world_2bB.  At the same time, I can see that the relational structure is similar.  Sensible construction applies, until something goes wrong.

0074 What an unanticipated way to enter the discipline of economics.

Encounters with the world_2bB are certainly causal.  They occur in the realm of actuality.  So do purchases of loaves of bread_2bB.

Since the realm of actuality corresponds to the category of secondness and since secondness consists in two contiguous real elements, I may ask, “What are the real elements involved?”

0075 Well, it depends on the question (that is, the normal context).

Okay, the question is, “Why does this exchange occur?”

Well, the baker wants to sell the bread.  I call the bread, “a quality product”.

Plus, the customer wants to buy the bread.  I call the willingness, “demand”.

These two realnesses are somehow contiguous.

0076 What is the contiguity?

Price?

Price is not a thing.  It is the contiguity between a willingness to sell and a willingness to buy.  As such, price is substantial.  Price is a site of contention.

The Second Primer on the Organization Tier introduces economic concepts, such as quality and demand.  It does so without naming the upper_C tier.

0077 The organization_B tier, like the individual in community_A tier, is a noumenon, a thing itself, whose phenomena are subject to scientific inquiry.  Phenomena are the observable and measurable facets of a noumenon.

What does this imply?

Science investigates phenomena.  A noumenon cannot be reduced to its phenomena.  So, scientific inquiry cannot elucidate the noumenal features of either the organization_B or the person_A.

In contrast, the category-based nested form can.

0078 How so?

Economics can measure and observe prices and build models and discuss these models using its disciplinary language.

But, economics cannot objectify the thing itself.

Price is the contiguity between two real motivations.

In order to understand price, one must inquire about these motivations.

0079 Thus, at this juncture, I implore the reader to consider teaching these primers, as well as the masterwork, How To Define the Word “Religion”.  The method is read and discuss.

0080 This course is a wonderful way to introduce your children and your students to the difference between science and understanding.  Search for the keywords, Razie Mah, series, How To Define The Word “Religion”.

Once again, here is a picture of the difference.

0081 The sixth primer introduces the content level of the society_C tier.

Prior to primer six, the family appears twice as a metaphor for the organization_B tier.  

In primer four, the family associates to the entire organization_B tier.

In primer five, the proper family_aB associates to the content_a level of the organization_B tier.

0082 The family as a corporation_aB expands into an interscope.  The provider associates to management_caB.  The nurturer goes with production_baB.  The child matches service_aaB.  Management_caB, production_baB and service_aaB go with a corporation_aB.  Provider_caB, nurturer_baB and children_aaB go with the family as a proper organization_aB.

0083 Like the corporation, the family^org_aB is founded on an accommodation, which I call “the marriage deal”.  The marriage deal_3aB is more than the feelings, perceptions and judgments of individuals in community_A.  It_3aB is the normal context of human pair-bonding_1aB.  Human pair-bonding is evolutionarily ancient.  So, we are innately prepared to recognize the marriage deal_3aB whenever we encounter it_3aB.

0084 What does this imply?

The family associates to all three tiers of the presence underlying the word, “religion”.

0085 Once again, the family participates in three associations.

0086 Family^inst_3aC goes with the content_a level of the society_C tier, also called “the institution level”.  An institution_aC is not the same as an organization_B or a corporation_aB, even though they may appear to be the same.  An institution_aC puts the organization_B into perspective.  It is the difference between a mission statement and an organization chart.

0087 Family_B, the family as an organization, associates to the entire organization_B interscope.

Here is a picture.

The ancient Greek word for “household”, “oikos“, is the root word for today’s term, “economy”.

0088 Family^org_aB, the family as corporation, associates to the content level of the organization interscope.  

The marriage deal_3aaB stands as the normal context₃ of the content level_a of the corporation_aB interscope.

0089 What possibility_1aaB underlies the marriage deal_3aaB?

The potential of the male-female pair bond_1aaB does.

0090 A Primer on the Family adds the institution_a level of the society_C tier to the picture of the family.  Family^inst_3aC putsthe proper family_aB into perspective under the conditions of the family as an organization_B.

Here is a picture.

0091 The family^inst_3aC exemplifies an infrasovereign religion that does not require sovereign power, because family organizational objects_2aC innately appeal to human sensibilities.  The marriage deal_3aaB has served our genus well.

0092 If a social madness sweeps through civilization, proclaiming that families are not righteous, then its victory paves the way for insanity.  A leader who destroys the family destroys “himself”.  From the social wreckage, a realization emerges.   Dad loves mom.  Dad provides for mom.  Mom loves dad.  Children are blessings.  Mom puts dad in charge of the family.

Yes, the realization is as old as humanity itself.