Seeking Social Status
Benefit: The Present Focus
Society, or for most of us a local community, is the setting in which we play out the dramas of our life.
These dramas involve the handling and management of our as explained here. The within experience are particularly significant for social life because they deal with fundamental requirements, particularly , , and .
There is also the shaping of our endeavours via a primal quest. This line of thought leads to the notion of a and to consideration of and in our communities.
When it comes to specifically seeking to benefit from social life, we require a different approach. One that appreciates the desire for benefit as egotistical in nature, while recognizing its ethical dimension.
Getting what you want in society depends on social status and is founded in handling interactions with others. This takes us directly to the interacting for benefit framework.
Background
The framework was developed in the early stages of this research project, indeed before it was properly understood as part of a taxonomy.
It is now identified as an arena for governing within the with the formula .
The early investigations, stimulated by the theory of Clare Graves and its development as Spiral Dynamics, focused on the 7 approaches/mentalities. The analysis using a Typology Essentials Table revealed numerous features of these paradigms never previously identified.
However, the further analyses at that time which led to Spiral and Tree frameworks were all applications:
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career development as based on capability and business contributions;
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interaction for a specific purpose in cooperating for results;
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how to progressively strengthen the commercial ethos in a firm;
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strategies for a business interacting with its market;
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the requisite role of government in economic development.
It is time now to come back to the basics of personal functioning i.e. interacting within society so as to get the benefit you want.