Domain: Institutionalisation and Power

An actor’s capacity to influence, constrain or direct the thinking, judgement or conduct of other individuals or social circles.

The process through which shared civilisation elements are durably embedded in institutions and thereby made less dependent on their original bearers.

An enduring system of roles, rules, norms and expectations in which elements of a circle civilisation are socially embedded and thereby made less dependent on particular persons.

The effect that an actor’s conduct or the presence of that actor’s power has on the thinking, judgement or conduct of an individual or social circle.

The individuals within a social circle who possess, to a particular degree, the power to direct that circle’s goals, organisation, norms and conduct.