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Adaptive cycle phase |
Agency of social capital
(action and
behavior) |
Social structure
(discourse and
institutions) |
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Institutionalized |
Agency reinforces and is aligned to dominant social structures and
institutions. Alternative behavior is marginalized or excluded. |
Cohesive structure legitimates prevalent social behavior. Alternative
discourses and associated institutions are marginalized or excluded. |
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Transition |
Likelihood of transition to a new state is influenced by cultural norms
determining the limits of risk and loss tolerance and denial, institutional
resistance to change, and capacity to cope with risk and loss. |
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Scattered |
Diffuse and diverse, social capital and behavior can break away from
normalized routines and positions. A space for alternatives to emerge or be
formed |
Established institutions and discourse seen to have failed in providing
security or explaining risk. While these structures are still in place they are
no longer reinforced by social agency initiating a crisis in structural
reproduction |
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Transition |
New constellations of values emerge and compete for discursive
dominance. |
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Mobilized |
Social capital hardens around discrete value positions and specific coalitions
of interest emerge. |
Contradictory and supportive discourses and institutions coexist in
overlapping emergent regimes. |
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Transition |
Historical and political contexts shape the speed of movement from a
focus on the building of internal cohesion for diverse social groups and their
associated institutions and discourses to mobilization and competition between
competing values and behavior. |
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Polarized |
Competition between alternative social groups is overt. New hierarchies
or non-hierarchies arise. |
Fewer, but more forcefully argued differences |
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Transition |
Negotiation or imposition of a new risk social contract |