The domain concerning the processes through which civilisation elements become durably embedded in institutions and thereby acquire social operation and power.
- Explanation. Institutions make civilisation elements less dependent on particular individuals. Through institutions, power bases, elites, systems of ideas and narratives, civilisation elements may become socially directive and contribute to the organisation and conduct of social circles. The theory explicitly treats elite power as constrained by the conduct and responses of others.
Definitions
Propositions
- Proposition 025 – Institutionalisation creates social givens
- Proposition 026 – Coherence through systems of ideas
- Proposition 027 – Narrative and transmissibility
- Proposition 028 – Narrative as interpretive framework
- Proposition 029 – Institutions strengthen power bases
- Proposition 030 – Actors exercise institutional power
- Proposition 031 – Sources of institutional conformity
- Proposition 032 – Internalisation strengthens institutional conformity
- Proposition 033 – Institutional operation depends on conduct
- Proposition 034 – Civilisation and support
- Proposition 035 – Support base as power base
- Proposition 036 – Every social circle has an elite
- Proposition 037 – Bases of elite position
- Proposition 038 – Changing composition of elites
- Proposition 039 – Elite recognition and direction
- Proposition 040 – Limits on elite action
- Proposition 041 – Planned and unplanned institutionalisation
- Proposition 042 – Politics and institutional change
- Proposition 043 – Politics without institutionalisation
Last updated: 1 October 2026