Social Process Model

The Full “Social Process” Model — The Social Dynamic of Humanness

Social Process Triangles booklet,

Corporately written

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Social Dynamic of Humanness 3x3x3 Charts Corporately written
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Dynamical Relations of the Social Process – Triangle book

Corporately written

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Dynamical Relations of the Social Process Summer 71 Document A – Prose Description of the Social Process model and dynamics,   Corporately written, 20905

Notes on Dynamical Sociology ,  Mathews, J.W., 9674, , A simple early outline of the philosophy and method of “dynamical sociology”

One of the great things the crisis of the hour has done is to force the rethinking of the theoretics of inclusive human relations. We have to live together. We need to invent the the forms to operate with effectiveness and efficiency together. So this is the research work on the social process or dynamical sociality – a complex dynamic, composed of happenings—dynamics that are interrelated, interdependent upon one-another. For instance, the social process as a whole, a dynamic comprised of three major dynamics.

• The Economic dynamic, the means in which society sustains itself in existence.
• The Political dynamic, the organizing dynamic of society.
• The Cultural dynamic of society, where the basic images of a society are created and transmitted from one generation to another.

from Human Motivity and Reformulation of New Community

The Institute used the Social Process Triangles:

• To ensure comprehensiveness and consistency in its own internal research and planning (to a page on the turn)
• In training courses (Lens, SMS)
• As an interpretive screen in organizational and local community planning (TM, Lens, LENS, org triangles)
• The Institute used the Social Process Triangles:
  • To ensure comprehensiveness and consistency in its own internal research and planning (to a page on the turn)
  • In training courses (Lens, SMS)
  • As an interpretive screen in organizational and local community planning (TM, Lens, LENS, org triangles)
• Dr. Clancy Mann used the Social Process triangles extensively in the graduate school classes he taught in global business.  His  “Introduction to Social Process Analysis” explains the triangles use as an analytic tool
  • Social Trends analysis
  • Organizational strategic planning.  Bill Staples describes the Social Process Triangles in his book Transformational Strategy
  • Understanding social dynamics in a family or household
  • Describing process imbalances affecting our work
  • Forging Social Philosophy, October 1876 (for printing)

Creating the Social Process Model

The first three levels of the Social Process were developed as part of the Ecumenical Institute’s Sociology and History Course.  In 1971 the focus was on developing the Social Process triangles to provide a comprehensive, theoretical base for analyzing society. The Corporate Reading Research Project (CRRP) engaged several hundred colleagues in studying over 500 books and articles for insights and key concepts. A network of weekend Problem-Solving Units (PSU’s) digested this material and constructed the Social Process Triangle model. Participants in the Summer 71 Research Assembly completed work on the triangle model by cleaning the 6th level and identifying the Dynamical Relations among the poles of every triangle.

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”Arthur C. Clarke