Accounting for Social Dynamics
摘要
We see that people everywhere want human dignity and a healthy living environment. Helping people clarify, secure, and sustain common interest outcomes for human dignity in healthy environments is the most effective way to assist our family, friends, community, nation, other life, the environment, and the world. To do this, it is vital to have a concept of social process and a framework with components and operations. These are our main intellectual and practical tools by which we can find and connect process relationships in a systematic and comprehensive way to achieve goals. Without such tools, we will continue to make insufficient progress in addressing the human dignity and environmental challenges that we face. We recommend a four-part conception of the social process—humans, values, institutions, and resources. We look at social process mapping in action with a panel by Dr. Douglas Clark. We also give commentary on using the social process framework.