Domain: Movements

A movement may accelerate the dissemination and social opera­tion of its civilisation elements when its system of ideas also initiates a broader process of civilising outside its own associations.

Civilisation elements may be institutionalised within a movement before they have gained broad social acceptance beyond it.

As an elite within a movement becomes recognised as directive, its activities and civilisation elements are more likely to be institutionalised purposively and thereby made more enduring.

An organisation within a movement may perform a specific func­tion without the movement being reduced to that organisation.

The means and practices of a movement perform civilising and binding functions by transmitting its system of ideas, strengthening shared civilisation elements among the individuals involved, and pro­moting the formation of social circles around those elements.

Different tendencies may arise within a movement because partici­pants and social circles do not fully share the same civilisations and in­terpret and develop the system of ideas and narrative differently.

A movement does not require central organisation or central lead­ership, but may be organised in that way.

When an organically arisen movement pursues political goals, has developed sufficient social cohesion, and its elite is recognised within the movement as directive, purposive political action becomes neces­sary to achieve those goals.

A movement may arise and develop organically without having been designed by a single actor, or it may be formed and organised purposively.

A movement cannot arise without a shared or developing system of ideas.