v003 · Open Inquiry Research Group
Contents
The Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1–39, and editorial material.
- PREFACEPreface: Why Step Out of the Class Image
- INTROIntroduction: What Social Differentiation Network Theory Aims to Explain
- CH01Chapter 01 Why Class Theory Has Power: How a High-Compression Model Captures Real Social Pressures
- CH02Chapter 02 The Formation of the Class Plane
- CH03Chapter 03 The Temptation of a Single Axis: How an Effective Concept Is Elevated into a Presupposed Main Line
- CH04Chapter 04 Society Is Not a Combination of a Few Grand Concepts: From a Platter of Concepts to Differentiating Units
- CH05Chapter 05 What Is a Differentiating Unit? How Social Differences Become Differentiating Units That Can Be Extracted, Assigned Weight, and Connected to Consequences
- CH06Chapter 06 Concepts Are Not What Society Fundamentally Is: How Concepts Compress Differentiating Units and Occlude Reality
- CH07Chapter 07 How Differences Produce Consequences for Action: Differentiating Units from Background Differences to the Chain of Consequences
- CH08Chapter 08 Superposition, Occlusion, and Generation among Differentiating Units: How Differences Form Relational Structures
- CH09Chapter 09 Why Differences Carry Different Weights: How Weight Forms within Relations
- CH10Chapter 10 Relational Fields: How Social Objects Undergo Distinction Extraction, Weight Assignment, and Positioning Anew
- CH11Chapter 11. Differentiation Positions: How Multiple Weights Combine to Form a Person's Actual Position
- CH12Chapter 12. Latent Differentiation Space: How Differences Not Yet Extracted Are Preserved and Triggered, and How They Change Positions
- CH13Chapter 13. Nodes: How Differences Are Preserved, Given Definite Form, Extracted, and Passed On
- CH14Chapter 14. Relational Chains: How Differences Are Recast, Branch, Flow Back, and Produce Consequences between Nodes
- CH15Chapter 15. Networks: How Multiple Relational Chains Jointly Process Differences and Reorganize Positions
- CH16Chapter 16. Community: How Long-Running Differentiation Networks Form Boundaries, Recognition, and Social Memory
- CH17Chapter 17. Institutionalization: How Differences Are Formatted, Judged, and Connected to Consequences That Can Be Put into Effect
- CH18Chapter 18. Class-Image Formation: How High-Weight Differentiating Units Are Brutally Projected into Class Images
- CH19Chapter 19. National-Community Formation: How Partially Overlapping Networks Form Historical Communities
- CH20Chapter 20 State Incorporation of Differences: How Differences Are Formatted, Mutually Recognized, and Connected to Chains of Implementation
- CH21Chapter 21 Historicization: How Past Differences Become an Order of Differentiation Available for Future Extraction
- CH22Chapter 22 Why Theory Must Simplify
- CH23Chapter 23. Dangerous Compression
- CH24Chapter 24. Differentiation Bias: The Misalignment of Explanation and Reality
- CH25Chapter 25. Illusory Explanatory Construction: Internally Coherent but Distorting Reality
- CH26Chapter 26: Model C, Complexity-Based Conflation, and Explanatory Calibration
- CH27Chapter 27. Family: Preservation, Responsibility, and Historical Indices in Kinship Networks
- CH28Chapter 28. Local Society: Local Recognition, Relational Nodes, and the Generation of Positions
- CH29Chapter 29. Nation and Community: Long-Term Interaction, Shared Memory, and Boundary Generation
- CH30Chapter 30. The State: Identification, Registration, Certification, Implementation, and Write-Back
- CH31Chapter 31. The Market: Differentiation Networks in Prices, Debt, Credit, and Risk
- CH32Chapter 32. Schools and Education: Differentiation Networks of Student Registration, Evaluation, Qualifications, and Future Opportunities
- CH33Chapter 33. Platform Society: Differentiation Networks of Accounts, Records, Ranking, and Visibility
- CH34Chapter 34. Revolutions and Movements: Differences Gaining Weight Together, Rapid Connections between Nodes, and Action Write-Back
- CH35Chapter 35. Limited Distinction Extraction and Entry into Concrete Relational Fields
- CH36Chapter 36. Applied Analysis of Weight: Nodes, Transmission, Records, and Write-Back
- CH37Chapter 37. Calibrating Applications of Community: Types, Relations, and Boundaries
- CH38Chapter 38: Operational Calibration of Complexity Compression
- CH39Chapter 39: What This Theory Is Not: Society Is Not a Class Plane but a Differentiation Network