Ideology as a Tertiary Hierarchy

Architectural Conjecture

Social change ideologies associated with each of the depiction paradigms.

In a previous topic, political ideology was introduced as the way political leaders can legitimate the way they address social situations of all sorts.

The TET was used to locate these political ideologies, because it appears each does draw on a particular depiction paradigm.

However, ideologies do not appear to be a property of the paradigms, nor are they a simple application of the paradigms as with forms of personal therapy.

The solution to how they fit is to recognize that political ideologies are PH"3-social change ideologies and they exist in their own hierarchy, a tertiary hierarchy nested within the PH'3L6-structural paradigm.

Use of the structural paradigm generates ordered frameworks with a distinctive identity in terms of structure and function. Each of the social change ideologies is exactly that, but these frameworks are not just about any situation, but are specifically geared to the application of depiction paradigms to societal settings.

Just as nesting of the depiction paradigms found correspondence with the primary change hierarchy levels, so each Type of social change ideology finds its nature driven by the corresponding numbered Type of depiction paradigm.

This correspondence refers to the taxonomic order as in the diagram below. If the taxonomic order corresponds, then the natural order as used for the summary table in the previous topic will also correspond.

Structure Diagram

ClosedOther Tertiary Hierarchies

Similar tertiary hierarchies have been identified within:

On this basis, it is conjectured that tertiary hierarchies will be found in all the Primary Domains.


Originally posted: 20-Apr-2025.