Comparing via a TET
How to Compare
Q5: Ways to Promulgate
•t1: Assert fundamentals
•t2: Provide mentoring
•t3: Organise dissemination
•t4: Support membership
•t5: Ensure guardianship
•t6: Debate revisions
•t7: Publicize applications
A taxonomic comparison of Types within a THEE Typology is performed by plotting them on a Typology Essentials Table (TET).
► For a general account: see the Hub.
► For specific accounts: see , and (also a Q-typology).
There are two steps:
Step 1: Define the psychosocial field so as to determine the TET Axes:
X-axis is the objective requirement or desired social outcome;
Y-axis is the psychological condition or personal requirement to generate that outcome.
Step 2:
Plot the Types on the TET: see next topic.
Step 1: Axes
X-axis: The social goal of a is wider society’s acceptance of the and eventual incorporation of some of its ideas and values. So the axis label here is «pressure for social acceptance» i.e. how directly and intensely does the activity seek to get acceptance for the school and doctrine within wider society?
Activities that are high on pressure for acceptance i.e. plotted on the right half of the TET, need to create an emotional impact because people do not change their views and tolerate new ideas for purely rational reasons.
Inward-looking activities dealing with details of the doctrine or School development will be less concerned with acceptance, i.e. plotted in the left half of the TET. Such work needs to be rationally justified.
Y-axis: The psychological requirement needed to support promulgation and deliver acceptance is «committed advocacy» i.e. how much is the work dependent on an adherent's capability and willingness to advocate for the doctrine.
Activities that require adherents to be highly committed to advocacy, i.e. plotted in the upper half of the TET, require engagement with the doctrine.
Activities that are less concerned with advocacy, i.e. plotted in the lower half of the TET, require engagement with the adherent group.
The Quadrants
The effect of these axes is to define 4 psychosocial quadrants with differing characteristics as shown in the diagram:
•high on both acceptance and advocacy (upper right)
•low on both acceptance and advocacy (lower left)
•low on acceptance but high on advocacy (upper left)
•high on acceptance but low on advocacy (lower right)
Now:
- Plot the ways to promulgate a Teaching.
Originally posted: 7-Sep-2022. Last updated: 7-Apr-2023