THEE Path
Choice of the «Q-» Label
In the early days, I needed to understand the difference between the and other fundamental hierarchies with diverse formal properties that I was uncovering in and . Jaques and colleagues attributed a fundamental significance to their Organizational Work Levels Hierarchy. It is true that it is fundamental: but then all Frameworks within THEE are fundamental. Beck and co-workers clearly felt like Jaques when they called their Spiral Dynamics the «theory of everything». In THEE, it is the Root Hierarchy that is logically fundamental. However, before I discovered it, I had identified several of its Levels as Primary Hierarchies. So I referred to as a «Quasi-primary» Hierarchy. It became evident that «primary» did not apply at all, but I kept the label, Q- from «quasi-» for sentimental reasons.
The conjectured path is as follows:
Origin: Root Cell: (not shown in diagram)
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Emanate: Root Hierarchy ():
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Select: Level-5 ():
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Select: Level-6 ():
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Nest within Level-6: Principal Typology:
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Select: L'4 and L'5—
Identify: Modal Hierarchy—
Expand: Apply Modal Hierarchy to generate the 4th Q-Hierarchy: Q4—.Click for image with details.
Note that names of the following frameworks are still in flux.
- Start: Subsidiary Typology (): .
- Derive: TET and Spiral (): .
- Derive: Hierarchy (): .
- Derive: Tree (): Dynamics of .
- Derive: Structural Hierarchy ():
- Derive: Structural Hierarchy Tree (): .
For a graphic showing this Arena in the context of other , click on the thumbnail at right.
- Get a sense of societal institutions.
- Then imagine how societal institutions emerge.
- Then explore their strange nature.
- Note: You may wish to do some preparatory study.
Originally posted:18-Nov-2022. Last updated: 30-Apr-2023.