About the Domains
The formal theory consists of axioms, definitions and propositions. The domains provide a thematic way of exploring this theoretical framework. They group definitions and propositions according to the principal area of the theory to which they relate. The domains are therefore not separate parts of the theory or chapters in a fixed sequence. They provide an alternative route through the theory, making it possible to examine related concepts and propositions together.
Personal Civilisation
The domain concerning the formation, composition and operation of the unique civilisation through which an individual interprets and evaluates the world, forms goals and directs conduct.
Circle Civilisation and Social Circles
The domain concerning the formation and operation of social circles and the civilisation elements that are sufficiently shared within them to become socially operative.
Civilising
The domain concerning the processes through which civilisation elements are formed, transmitted, selected, interpreted, internalised, maintained and changed.
Institutionalisation and Power
The domain concerning the processes through which civilisation elements become durably embedded in institutions and thereby acquire social operation and power.
Maintenance and Reproduction
The domain concerning the mechanisms through which circle civilisations and their institutions persist and are reproduced over time.
Change and Interaction
The domain concerning the processes through which personal civilisations, circle civilisations, social relations and institutions influence one another and change over time.
Politics and Purposive Change
The domain concerning politics and the processes through which actors purposively seek to maintain, change or replace elements of circle civilisations, institutions and social orders.
Movements
The domain concerning the emergence, organisation and operation of enduring constellations oriented around sufficiently shared civilisation elements and systems of ideas.
The State
The domain concerning the state as a particular territorial social circle to which the general mechanisms of the theory apply.
Social Change
The domain concerning the general explanation and classification of changes in personal and circle civilisations, social relations, institutions and the social orders resting upon them.