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1. Preface: Why Step Out of the Class Image
2. Introduction: What Social Differentiation Network Theory Aims to Explain
   • I. Judgment Must Begin with What Is Happening
   • II. Stepping Back from Grand Concepts to Concrete Differences
   • III. How Differences Enter into Social Consequences
   • IV. The Differentiation Network Is Not a New Total Image
   • V. The Power and Boundaries of the Class Image
   • VI. How Limited Explanations Remain Open to Calibration
   • VII. The Book’s Course of Work
3. Chapter 01 Why Class Theory Has Power: How a High-Compression Model Captures Real Social Pressures
   • I. Why a False Theory Can Still Capture Suffering
   • II. Two Kinds of Deadlines and the Width of Available Exits: The Mechanisms of Unpaid Wages and Unemployment
   • III. Branching Relational Chains: Family Responses, Bodily Reality, and Procedural Determination
   • IV. How Dispersed Suffering Acquires a Common Language: Connection and Its Limits
   • V. The Structure of Total-Image Subsumption and Limited Economic Differentiation Analysis
4. Chapter 02 The Formation of the Class Plane
   • I. The Capacity for Distinction Extraction within a Limited Scope and the Structure of Total-Image Subsumption
   • II. Presence Rewritten as Exclusivity: The Demotion of Family, Locality, and Shared Memory
   • III. Turning Nodes into Labels and the Occlusion of Function
   • IV. The Mechanism of Strong Compression and the Unfolding of the Formation Chain
   • V. Causal Distortion, Objects of Action, and Reifying Inversion
   • VI. Dismantling the Plane, Calibrating the Order, and Comparison within a Limited Scope
5. Chapter 03 The Temptation of a Single Axis: How an Effective Concept Is Elevated into a Presupposed Main Line
   • I. The Structural Difference Between Class Theory and Other Presupposed Axes
   • II. Formation Procedures, Working Lines, and Temporary Centers
   • III. The State Axis: Institutional Thresholds and the Administrative Plane
   • IV. The Market Axis: Monetary Pressure and the Transactional Plane
   • V. The National and Cultural Axes: Memory, Responsibility, and the Plane of Identity
   • VI. The Family Axis: Everyday Relations and the Psychological Plane
   • VII. Comparison and Concrete Judgment After Removing Presupposed Axes
   • VIII. Society Is a Differentiation Network
6. Chapter 04 Society Is Not a Combination of a Few Grand Concepts: From a Platter of Concepts to Differentiating Units
   • I. How a Platter of Concepts Occludes Consequences
   • II. Grand Concepts as High-Level Compression Labels and Indexes
   • III. Unfolding the School-Admission Eligibility Chain and Institutional Responsibility
   • IV. Wedding and Funeral Cash Gifts, Marriage Pressure, and Workplace Injury: Tracing Relations and Consequences
   • V. The Turn to Differentiating Units: Procedural Recognition, Actual Operation, and Judgments of Operative Weight
   • VI. Dismantling the Class Image and Real Differences
   • VII. Society Is a Differentiation Network: Ontological Boundaries and Continuity with Volume I
7. Chapter 05 What Is a Differentiating Unit? How Social Differences Become Differentiating Units That Can Be Extracted, Assigned Weight, and Connected to Consequences
   • I. Questions in the Situation at Hand and the Formal Definition of the Differentiating Unit
   • II. Potential States, Relationality, and the Empirical Levels of Representation
   • III. Mechanisms of Operation: Weight Assignment, Continuation, Positions of Responsibility, and Receding Effects
   • IV. How Differentiating Units Differ from Ordinary Perspectives and Comparisons
   • V. Judging Effectiveness and the Boundaries of Empirical Evidence
   • VI. Low-Dimensional Compression in the Class Image, Macro-Level Inference, and Changes of Scale
   • VII. Not Becoming a New Main Axis, and Responsibility for the Boundaries of Material Selection
   • VIII. Conceptual Tools, the Reality of Relations and Groups, and Explanatory Boundaries
8. Chapter 6. Concepts Are Not What Society Fundamentally Is: How Concepts Compress Differentiating Units and Occlude Reality
   • I. Concepts Are Not the Enemy
   • II. How Concepts Compress Differentiating Units
   • III. Why Concepts Have Power
   • IV. How Concepts Occlude Reality
   • V. How Concepts Come to Be Treated as What Society Fundamentally Is
   • VI. Differentiating Units Must Not Be Ontologized Either
   • VII. How to Use Concepts Properly
   • VIII. Turning to How Differences Produce Consequences for Action
9. Chapter 7. How Differences Produce Consequences for Action: Differentiating Units from Background Differences to Chains of Consequences
   • I. A Difference's Existence Does Not Mean That It Is Operative
   • II. How Differences Become Apparent from the Background
   • III. How Differences Are Extracted and Used
   • IV. How Differences Are Assigned Operative Weight
   • V. How Differences Enter Comparison
   • VI. How Differences Connect to Channels and Responsibility
   • VII. How Differences Change Recognition, Shame, and Distance
   • VIII. How Differences Change Time and Choice
   • IX. How Consequences Are Written Back as New Differences
   • X. The Explanatory Boundaries of Chains of Consequences
10. Chapter 8. Superposition, Occlusion, and Generation among Differentiating Units: How Differences Form Relational Structures
    • I. Differentiating Units Are Not Isolated Points
    • II. Superposition Is Not Simple Addition
    • III. How One Difference Amplifies the Weight of Another
    • IV. Occlusion Is Not Disappearance
    • V. How New Relations Generate New Differentiating Units
    • VI. Why a List Is Still Not Analysis
    • VII. The Analytical Boundaries of Superposition, Occlusion, and Generation
11. Chapter 9. Why Differences Carry Different Weights: How Weight Forms within Relations
    • I. Why the Same Difference Carries Different Weights in Different Relations
    • II. Weight Is Not a Ranking of People
    • III. How Differences Gain Weight within Relations
    • IV. Why the Differentiating Units Extracted by Class Theory Often Carry Weight
    • V. Why No Set of Differences Can Be Presupposed to Carry the Greatest Weight Forever
    • VI. What Changes When Differences Gain Weight Is Action Space
    • VII. Why Judging Relative Weight Cannot Stop at a List
    • VIII. How Weight Rearranges Other Differences
    • IX. The Boundaries of Judgments of Weight
12. Chapter 10. Relational Fields: How Social Objects Undergo Distinction Extraction, Weight Assignment, and Positioning Anew
    • I. Begin with Concrete Objects Rather Than Identities
    • II. Distinction Extraction: Extracting Operative Differences from Potential Differences
    • III. Weight Assignment: Extracted Differences Are Not Equally Important
    • IV. Connection: How Differentiating Units with High Weight Affect Consequences within Relations
    • V. Compression: Identity Is a Designation for a Complex Configuration of Differentiating Units
    • VI. The Class Image: The Power and Danger of Compressed Projection
    • VII. Positioning: Social Position Is a Structure of Consequences, Not a Name
    • VIII. Write-Back: How the Results of Positioning Affect the Next Instance of Distinction Extraction
    • IX. From Relational Fields to Differentiation Positions
13. Chapter 11. Differentiation Positions: How Multiple Weights Combine to Form a Person's Actual Position
    • I. A Position Is Not an Identity Badge
    • II. Differentiation Space: Where Differentiation Positions Form
    • III. Differentiation Position: An Actual Position Formed by a Five-Layer Structure
    • IV. Dominant Pull: What Is Holding a Person in Place?
    • V. Connection Chains: How One Pull Brings a Series of Consequences
    • VI. Constraint Domain: How Differentiation Positions Limit People's Range of Action
    • VII. Conflict: How Pulls in Different Directions Tear at People
    • VIII. Occlusion: How High-Weight Designations Deprive Other Differences of a Voice
    • IX. Lock-In: Why Some People Cannot Move
    • X. Write-Back Sedimentation: How Past Positioning Becomes New Differentiating Units
    • XI. Positional Displacement: A Differentiation Position Is Not Fate
    • XII. From Differentiation Position to Latent Differentiation Space
14. Chapter 12. Latent Differentiation Space: How Differences Not Yet Extracted Are Preserved and Triggered, and How They Change Positions
    • I. What Has Become Apparent Is Not Everything That Exists
    • II. Latent Differentiation Space Is Not a Hidden Essence, but a Structure of Differences That Can Be Extracted
    • III. Preservation: Why Silent Differences Have Not Disappeared
    • IV. Triggering: What Conditions Give Silent Differences Greater Weight
    • V. Extraction: Who Is Requiring These Differences to Become Visible
    • VI. Weight Assignment and Connection: How Differences Really Gain Weight
    • VII. Reorganization: How Latent Differences Change Differentiation Positions
    • VIII. Why Present Explanations Can Misjudge Future Changes
    • IX. Latent Differentiation Space Does Not Predict Everything
    • X. From Latent Differentiation Space to the Network
15. Chapter 13. Nodes: How Differences Are Preserved, Given Definite Form, Extracted, and Passed On
    • I. Differences Do Not Preserve Themselves
    • II. What Is a Node?
    • III. What Nodes Preserve Is Not Materials, but Conditions for Consequences
    • IV. Giving Definite Form and Filtering: Reshaping the Forms of Recognition
    • V. Institutions and Relations: Formal and Informal Nodes
    • VI. Objects and Documents as Relay Carriers
    • VII. Authority to Extract Differences at Nodes: Who Can Make the Past Take Effect Again?
    • VIII. The Recasting of the Same Difference at Different Nodes
    • IX. Node Failure: How Differences That Are Not Preserved Lose Their Voice
    • X. From Nodes to Relational Chains
16. Chapter 14. Relational Chains: How Differences Are Recast, Branch, Flow Back, and Produce Consequences between Nodes
    • I. Relational Chains Are Not Personal Connections
    • II. How a Lower-Back Injury Leaves the Hospital Node
    • III. How Cash Gifts Leave Weddings and Funerals
    • IV. Recasting, Amplification, and Distortion
    • V. Branching: How One Difference Enters Multiple Chains
    • VI. Cutoff and Redirection: Why Differences Sometimes Fail to Get Through
    • VII. Recirculation in the Reverse Direction: How Chains Change Differentiation Positions
    • VIII. How Formal and Informal Chains Connect to One Another
    • IX. Sedimentation: How a Chain Becomes New Material at Nodes
    • X. From Relational Chains to the Network
17. Chapter 15. Networks: How Multiple Relational Chains Jointly Process Differences and Reorganize Positions
    • I. A Network Is Neither Personal Connections nor a Diagram
    • II. How Multiple Chains Operate Simultaneously
    • III. Nodes of Intersection: Where Networks Form
    • IV. Reordering of Weights: Why Differences Suddenly Become Weightier
    • V. The Interlinking of Positions: How One Person's Differences Affect Others
    • VI. Local Spread: How an Event Passes through Multiple Nodes
    • VII. Structural Lock-In: How Multiple Chains Interlock
    • VIII. Networks May Also Provide Room for Adjustment
    • IX. Network Write-Back: What Remains after Intersection
    • X. From Networks to Communities
18. Chapter 16. Community: How Long-Running Differentiation Networks Form Boundaries, Recognition, and Social Memory
    • I. Community: A Boundary-Structured Memory Order
    • II. How Communities Selectively Preserve Differences
    • III. How Communities Repeatedly Extract Differences
    • IV. Interpretive Authority: Who Can Explain What These Differences Mean
    • V. Recognition: Who Is Treated as One of the Community’s Own
    • VI. Boundaries: How Communities Distinguish Inside and Outside
    • VII. Protection and Room for Adjustment
    • VIII. Exclusion and Punishment
    • IX. Shared Memory: What Communities Remember and What They Forget
    • X. Community Boundaries That Harden in Crisis
    • XI. What Is Identity within a Community?
    • XII. Conclusion of Volume IV: From Nodes to Community
19. Chapter 17. Institutionalization: How Differences Are Formatted, Judged, and Connected to Consequences That Can Be Put into Effect
    • I. Institutional Nodes and the Process of Institutionalization
    • II. The Formation of Procedural Material and Segmentation through Formatting
    • III. Rule-Governed Extraction and Authorized Interpretation
    • IV. Weight Assignment through Eligibility and Exclusion through Thresholds
    • V. Procedural Determination: How Institutions Allow Supplementation and Correction, Dispute, and Room for Adjustment
    • VI. Consequences Put into Effect: Why Institutions Are Harder than Local Reputation
    • VII. Institutional Write-Back: How an Act of Processing Becomes a New Difference
    • VIII. Institutionalization and Differentiation Positions
    • IX. From Institutionalization toward Class-Image Formation
20. Chapter 18. Class-Image Formation: How High-Weight Differentiating Units Are Brutally Projected into Class Images
    • I. Strictly Speaking, Class Does Not Exist at All
    • II. What Is Brutal Projection?
    • III. The Appeal of the Class Image and the Cost of Compressing Multiple Chains
    • IV. How Labor Relations Affect Chains of Everyday Life
    • V. How Property and Housing Become Education and Opportunity
    • VI. How Debt Produces Lock-In
    • VII. How Risk Is Distributed and Shifted onto Others
    • VIII. Capacity for Domination: Who Can Arrange Other People's Time and Consequences?
    • IX. How Families Take On Pressures of Labor, Debt, Risk, and Care
    • X. How Class Designations Disguise Projection as Underlying Reality
    • XI. Lock-In, Room for Adjustment, and Positional Displacement within Relational Chains
    • XII. Unpacking the Class Image Back into a Network of Differentiating Units
21. Chapter 19. National-Community Formation: How Partially Overlapping Networks Form Historical Communities
    • I. National-Community Formation Cannot Be Written on the Model of Class-Image Formation
    • II. Small Communities, Indirect Interaction, and Partial Overlap
    • III. Language, Local Life, and Mutual Recognition across Regions
    • IV. The Continuation of Marriage, Rites and Customs, and Religion
    • V. The Transgenerational Information-Continuity Complex
    • VI. Joining, Leaving, and Migration Memory
    • VII. The Formation, Hardening, Splitting, and Reconstruction of Boundaries
    • VIII. Shared Harm, Shared Responsibility, and the Limits of Substitution by Class
    • IX. State Intervention, Protection, and Exclusion
22. Chapter 20. State Incorporation of Differences: How Differences Are Formatted, Mutually Recognized, and Connected to Chains of Implementation
    • I. How State Incorporation Takes Up Existing Differences
    • II. Identification and Formatting: How Life Enters Positions of Processing
    • III. What Registration Leaves Behind
    • IV. Classification and Certification: Processing Paths and the Efficacy of Materials
    • V. The Pathways and Limits of Mutual Recognition
    • VI. Allocation and Coordination, Centralized Decision-Making, and Responsibility
    • VII. Implementation and Write-Back: Present Consequences and Future Positions
    • VIII. Cross-Institutionally Usable Identity and Institutional Non-Passability
    • IX. The Different Consequences of Education, Welfare, and the Military
    • X. Renewed Extraction and Implementation at Borders
    • XI. How Punishment Records Continue
    • XII. How Three Different Sources Enter State Nodes
    • XIII. Protection, Exclusion, and the Historical Materials Left Behind
23. Chapter 21. Historicization: How Past Differences Become an Order of Differentiation Available for Future Extraction
    • I. How the Past Enters the Lives of Those Who Come Later
    • II. Preservation, Selection, and Compression
    • III. How Indices Are Found and Triggered
    • IV. Positions of Interpretation and Latent Historical Space
    • V. Continuity across Generations through Commemoration and Education
    • VI. How Multiple Versions Enter into Contestation
    • VII. Historical Indices in Families and Localities
    • VIII. National Memory and State Historicization
    • IX. Renewed Extraction and Renewed Weight Assignment
    • X. Historicization's Protection, Dangers, and the Boundaries of Volume V
24. Chapter 22. Why Theory Must Simplify
    • I. Simplification Is the Starting Point of Judgment
    • II. Limited Distinction Extraction Is Not a Copy of Reality
    • III. Relational Fields and Weights Bound the Direction of Simplification
    • IV. Explanation Must Connect Differences into Relational Images
    • V. Compression Makes Transmission of Materials Possible
    • VI. Limited Explanations Can Still Be Compared
    • VII. The Same Object Requires Multiple Limited Images
    • VIII. Healthy Simplification Must Retain a Return Channel
25. Chapter 23. Dangerous Compression
    • I. How Necessary Compression Oversteps Its Bounds
    • II. Compression Loss and the Loss of Entry Points
    • III. The Hardening of Images and Fixed Labels
    • IV. Default Extraction and a Single Position
    • V. Historical Processes Must Not Be Compressed into Fixed Labels
    • VI. Action Write-Back and the Self-Reinforcement of Images
    • VII. Dangerous Compression in the Class Image
    • VIII. The Compression Boundaries of Other Images
    • IX. How Return Channels Are Cut Off
    • X. Reopening and the Next Misalignment
26. Chapter 24. Differentiation Bias: The Misalignment of Explanation and Reality
    • I. From Default Extraction to Systematic Misalignment
    • II. Bias in Distinction Extraction: Familiar Differences Monopolize the Entry Point
    • III. Weight Bias: Fixing Temporary Weight in Place
    • IV. Relational-Field Bias: Using a Partial Judgment in the Wrong Field
    • V. Node Bias: Concrete Processing Positions Are Occluded
    • VI. Relational-Chain Bias: Paths of Consequences Are Cut Off
    • VII. Historical-Index Bias: Treating the Past as Automatic or Excluding It
    • VIII. How Misalignment Forms and Persists
    • IX. Counterexample Exclusion and the Turn Toward Illusory Explanatory Construction
27. Chapter 25. Illusory Explanatory Construction: Internally Coherent but Distorting Reality
    • I. From Counterexample Exclusion to Counterexample Digestion
    • II. How Limited Materials Are Overorganized
    • III. Gap Completion: Explanation Refuses to Stop
    • IV. Causal-Line Infilling: Making Relations Not Yet Fully Traced Run Smoothly
    • V. Counterexample Digestion: How Conflict Is Turned into Proof
    • VI. Coherence Does Not Equal Accuracy
    • VII. How Different Illusory Constructions Subsume the Same Event
    • VIII. How Action Write-Back Produces Self-Verification
    • IX. The Appeal of Illusory Explanatory Construction
    • X. Dismantling Illusory Construction and Restoring Entry Points for Reality
    • XI. Moving into Model C and Complexity-Based Conflation
28. Chapter 26. Model C, Complexity-Based Conflation, and Explanatory Calibration
    • I. Class Entities Do Not Exist; Class Theory Belongs to Model C from the Outset
    • II. Model C's Ontologizing Closure
    • III. Model C's Two Mechanisms
    • IV. The Mechanism Chain of Model C: Total-Image Subsumption
    • V. Model C and Illusory Explanatory Construction
    • VI. How the Erasure of Distinctions Between Explanations Cancels Comparison
    • VII. Healthy Complexity Does Not Belong to Model C
    • VIII. The Two Mechanisms Move in Opposite Directions but Serve Related Functions
    • IX. Calibration Must Return to Concrete Relational Fields and Relations
    • X. Calibration Is Not Compromise, nor Does It Reserve a Place for Class Theory as a Tool
    • XI. Bringing the Theory Together and the Responsibility of Application
29. Chapter 27. Family: Preservation, Responsibility, and Historical Indices in Kinship Networks
    • I. Family Cannot Be Swallowed Up by a Fixed Image
    • II. Family Is a Network for Preserving Differences, Not an Undifferentiated Whole of Warmth and Affection
    • III. Family Is a Network for Allocating Responsibility, Not Merely a Private Sphere
    • IV. Family as a Relay Node
    • V. Authority to Extract Differences and Interpretive Authority within the Family
    • VI. Household Division: Family Historical Indices Come into View Together
    • VII. Elder Care: How Responsibility Is Reallocated through the Past
    • VIII. Borrowing Money: How Debt Becomes a Trace of Responsibility
    • IX. Caring for the Sick: How Bodily Events Enter the Family Network
    • X. Moving Out, Romantic Relationships, and Marriage: How Private Choices Enter Family History
    • XI. Nodes: How Family Preserves and Certifies Differences
    • XII. Relational Chains: Family Problems Are Not Factors Set Side by Side
    • XIII. Family Historical Indices and Write-Back: Bringing the Past into Play and Generating New Differences
    • XIV. How Family Is Compressed into Fixed Images
    • XV. Comparison and Explanatory Calibration within the Family Relational Field
30. Chapter 28. Local Society: Local Recognition, Relational Nodes, and the Generation of Positions
    • I. Locality Is Not Background
    • II. Local Recognition Is Not Feeling but Certification of Position
    • III. How a Family of Workers from Elsewhere Enters Local Networks
    • IV. Authority to Extract Differences and Interpretive Authority in Locality
    • V. Renting: The First Node of Local Recognition
    • VI. School Admission: The Misalignment of Local Recognition and Administrative Certification
    • VII. Neighborhood Recognition and Spatial Nodes
    • VIII. Networks of People from the Same Place of Origin: Protection, Opportunity, Debt, and Evaluation
    • IX. Local Relational Chains: How Differences Transmit Consequences
    • X. Local Historical Indices and Local Write-Back
    • XI. How Locality Is Compressed into a Fixed Image
    • XII. Calibration and the Boundaries of Explanations of Locality
31. Chapter 29. Nation and Community: Long-Term Interaction, Shared Memory, and Boundary Generation
    • I. A Nation Must Not Be Swallowed by a Fixed Image
    • II. A Nation Involves Interaction Through Multiple Layers of Relaying, Not Direct Interaction Among Everyone
    • III. A Child in a Small Border Town
    • IV. How a National Community Preserves Differences
    • V. Who Can Extract Shared Memory, and Who Can Interpret Boundaries?
    • VI. How Demands to Bear Responsibilities Together Are Extracted
    • VII. Bridging Nodes: Why Differences Do Not Immediately Become Boundaries
    • VIII. How Boundaries Harden
    • IX. National Community and Internal Differences
    • X. How National Communities Write Back to the Past and to Individual Positions
    • XI. How a Nation Is Compressed into Fixed Images
    • XII. The Limits of Explanations of Nations and Calibration Through Events
32. Chapter 30. The State: Identification, Registration, Certification, Implementation, and Write-Back
    • I. The State Cannot Be Written as One Enormous Person
    • II. The State Is Not the Source of Differences but a Mechanism for Formatting Them
    • III. A Family of Workers from Elsewhere Enters State Nodes
    • IV. State Recognition Is Not Merely Seeing but Recognition That Can Be Put into Effect
    • V. Authority to Extract Differences, Certification Authority, and Authority to Initiate Implementation within the State
    • VI. The Costs of State Recognition
    • VII. The State Is Not a Seamless System
    • VIII. Protection and Exclusion Come from the Same Set of Mechanisms
    • IX. State Relational Chains: From Facts of Life to Implementation
    • X. State Formatting Produces New Differentiating Units
    • XI. How the State Is Compressed into Fixed Images
    • XII. Preventing Complexity-Based Conflation and Calibrating Explanations of the State
33. Chapter 31. The Market: Differentiation Networks in Prices, Debt, Credit, and Risk
    • I. The Market Cannot Be Written as an All-Purpose Explanation
    • II. Prices Are Not Pure Numbers
    • III. A Family of Workers from Elsewhere Enters Market Nodes
    • IV. Market Time and Liquidity
    • V. Authority to Extract Differences and Evaluation Authority in the Market
    • VI. Contract Nodes and Platform Nodes
    • VII. Risk Shifting
    • VIII. Capacity to Wait and Width of Available Exits
    • IX. Market Relational Chains
    • X. How Non-Market Nodes Enter the Market
    • XI. Market Historical Indices and Write-Back
    • XII. How the Market Is Compressed into Fixed Images
    • XIII. Calibrating Explanations of the Market
34. Chapter 32. Schools and Education: Differentiation Networks of Student Registration, Evaluation, Qualifications, and Future Opportunities
    • I. Schools Cannot Be Written as Mere Channels of Upward Mobility
    • II. School Admission for the Child of a Worker’s Family from Elsewhere
    • III. Preservation of Eligibility through Student Registration and Breaks in Materials
    • IV. Examination Scores, Everyday Evaluation, and Students’ Responses
    • V. Authority to Extract Differences, Evaluation Authority, and Recording Authority in Schools
    • VI. How Family Fallback Support Enters Schools
    • VII. School Space and School Time
    • VIII. School Relational Chains
    • IX. School Historical Indices and Write-Back
    • X. How Schools Are Compressed into Fixed Images
    • XI. Preventing Complexity-Based Conflation and Calibrating Explanations of Schools
35. Chapter 33. Platform Society: Differentiation Networks of Accounts, Records, Ranking, and Visibility
    • I. Platforms Cannot Be Written as Mere Tools
    • II. The Family of Workers from Elsewhere Enters Platform Society
    • III. Entry through Accounts and the Storage and Retrieval of Records
    • IV. Ranking, Visibility, and Evaluation Authority on Platforms
    • V. Platform Rules Are Not a Stable Background
    • VI. How Real Differences Enter Platform Ranking
    • VII. Platform Time and the Costs of Complaints, Penalties, and Appeals
    • VIII. Platform Relational Chains
    • IX. Platform Historical Indices and Write-Back
    • X. How Platforms Are Compressed into Fixed Images
    • XI. Comparison amid Complexity and Calibration of Platform Explanations
36. Chapter 34. Revolutions and Movements: Differences Gaining Weight Together, Rapid Connections between Nodes, and Action Write-Back
    • I. Distinguishing Revolutions from Movements and Tracing Paths of Explanation
    • II. The Accumulation of Differences and Conditions for Action within a Situation
    • III. Organizational Nodes and Positions of Participation
    • IV. Slogan Compression and Friend–Enemy Divisions
    • V. Sacrifice Narratives, Shared Memory, and Imaginings of the Future
    • VI. Relational Chains of Movements
    • VII. Attenuation, Division, and Failure
    • VIII. Historical Indices and Write-Back of Movements
    • IX. How Movements Are Compressed into Fixed Images
    • X. Comparison amid Complexity and the Calibration of Movement Explanations
37. Chapter 35. Limited Distinction Extraction and Entry into Concrete Relational Fields
    • I. Explanation Cannot Begin with an Ultimate Answer
    • II. The Relational-Field Window and the Unfolding of a School-Admission Event
    • III. Limited Distinction Extraction and Verification of Candidate Differentiating Units
    • IV. How Causality Comes Down to Relational Connections
    • V. How Questions Change the Point of Entry: Workplace Injuries and Deposits
    • VI. Adjusting Windows and Passing from One to the Next
38. Chapter 36. Applied Analysis of Weight: Nodes, Transmission, Records, and Write-Back
    • I. How Differences Gain Weight through Handling
    • II. Tracing Relations While Also Seeing Downweighted Differences
    • III. Records Re-enter Events over Time
    • IV. Comparison Begins with Comparable Circumstances
    • V. Proof and Responsibility in Labor Disputes
    • VI. Comparing Material Chains in Medical Insurance Reimbursement
    • VII. Counterexamples and the Calibration of Weight
39. Chapter 37. Calibrating Applications of Community: Types, Relations, and Boundaries
    • I. Is There Already a Relation Beneath the Name
    • II. How Does Connection Take Shape, and How Deep Can It Continue?
    • III. When Does Memory Fall Silent, and When Does It Become Weighty Again?
    • IV. Who Can Recognize Members and Interpret Shared Memory?
    • V. How Does Protection Become a Demand of Responsibility?
    • VI. How Do Boundaries and Records Change Positions?
    • VII. How Does One Person Face Several Communities?
    • VIII. Illusory Construction, Real Consequences, and the Limits of Judgment
40. Chapter 38. Operational Calibration of Complexity Compression
    • I. Making Limited Judgments about Complex Events
    • II. How Scope and Granularity Can Be Compared
    • III. A Generalization Must Be Able to Return to the Event
    • IV. How the Total Image Swallows Differences
    • V. What Part of a Judgment Must a Counterexample Change?
    • VI. Following One Order to Trace Compression and Write-Back
    • VII. A Shared Slogan Does Not Eliminate Differences in Participation
    • VIII. Leaving an Entry for Reopening Judgment
41. Chapter 39. What This Theory Is Not: Society Is Not a Class Plane but a Differentiation Network
    • I. Society Forms and Exists as a Differentiation Network
    • II. How Differences Become a Real Relational Order
    • III. From Identities and Lists to Events
    • IV. The Class Image Cannot Replace Real Differences
    • V. How Other Explanations Enter Comparison
    • VI. Responsibility Cannot Be Replaced by Abstract Names
    • VII. The Boundaries of Limited Judgment and of the Theory Itself
    • VIII. How This Theory Accepts Examination

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