[Dialogue] Social process triangles

[Wayne Nelson]

John Baggett said to me in an email message,

> ³When Joe started working on the social process triangles he went back and
> read Durkheim and Max Weber, who, I am confident, were old sources from his
> university teaching days.  From Durkheim comes the notion of religious
> traditions and symbols mediating balance and homeostasis in society.  Think of
> balance in the social process triangles. From Weber comes the idea of
> religious symbols generating social change.  For example, capitalism was born
> from the Protestant ethic.  Catholicism and the non-Christian world religions
> generated and supported other economic models.  In other words there is a
> relationship between religious thinking, ethical living, and socio/economic
> processes.  I think Joe, at some point, saw the new religious mode as
> providing the catalyst for a new social reality.

The social processes were part of the ³Life Triangles.²  I¹m sure they are
easy to lay one¹s hands on.  As John says, Joe saw a relationship ­ a web of
them really, eh? 

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"jfwiegel at yahoo.com"  wrote:

>>> social process triangles  -  prior history?
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