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See articles: sociology , sociological theory , social theory , and system theory Differentiation is a term in system theory (found in sociology .) From the viewpoint of this theory , the principal feature of modern society is the increased process of system ...
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Differentiation \Dif`fer*en`ti*a"tion\, n. The act of differentiating. Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots. --J. Peile. (Logic) The act of distinguishing or describing ...
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n. 1 The act of differentiating. 2 The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination. 3 The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or ...
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Heterarchy, in and by itself, is merely differentiation without integration, disjointed parts recognizing no common and deeper purpose or organization: heaps, not wholes.
This directionality is usually stated as being one of increasing differentiation, variety, complexity, and organization.
Complexity thus emerges from the interpenetration of processes of differentiation and integration.
Whenever a new differentiation is not matched by a new and equal integration, whenever there is negation without preservation, the result is pathology of one sort or another, a pathology that, if severe enough, evolution sets about to erase in earnest.
Whenever evolution produces a new differentiation, and that differentiation is not integrated, a pathology results, and there are two fundamental ways to approach that pathology.
This approach, in my opinion, simply confuses differentiation and dissociation, confuses transcendence and repression.
By that retro-Romantic logic, the only way to really get rid of pathology is to get rid of differentiation altogether, which means everything after the Big Bang was a Big Mistake.
Thus, on level 1, or A, we already find dissipative or self-organizing structures, holons with depth and span, creative emergence, increasing complexity, evolutionary development, differentiation, self-transcendence, teleological attractors, and so forth.
That this differentiation went too far into dissociation is a topic we will discuss in chapters 12 and 13.
To automatically assume that differentiation of roles is the result of domination is to automatically define a particular group as victim, which automatically and irrevocably disempowers that group in the very attempt to liberate it.
But where the differentiation of the biosphere and the noosphere was not complete, the biospheric identities sucked these movements back out of the noosphere and into the bodily or biological determinants.
To the world of appearance belongs all differentiation, all generation and destruction, all motion and change, whereas the Truth is as it is, perfectly self-existing, and not open to any differentiation or distinctions of any sort.
Being in itself, prior to differentiation and prior to the Way of Appearance.
And the dialectic was in part a way to directly point to reality prior to its differentiation and illusory appearances, in which mortals become lost because they mistake these appearances for the undivided Truth.
The differentiation of the Big Three can be criticized, but the criticism itself presupposes the differentiation.