Brief tutorial on understanding the periodic table of human associations

 

Understanding the periodic table of human associations

There are only two points you need to remember in order to understand this periodic table:

1. Associations are defined as the relationships created when one party's satisfaction is increased or decreased by another party's action.

2. The labels beneath the diagram refer to the actions that create an association---the type of action (sanction or inducement), and its circumstances (taken unilaterally or by mutual consent of the parties).

The differences between private, compound, and public associations are indicted by the labels to the right of the diagram.

All associations can be classified into one of the nine categories in the periodic table, but there can also be major differences between the associations in any one of these categories. We can call these differences associational isotopes.

Although both laws and pseudolaws are enforced by governmental sanctions, laws constitute public-involuntary associations because they apply to the entire public (everybody) while pseudolaws create compound-involuntary associations because they apply only to arbitrarily selected people. Bylaws, on the other hand, are enforced by withdrawn or denied governmental inducements, not by sanctions.

For further details see chapter 2 in my e-book, Basic Political Concepts. Basic Political Concepts (opentextbooks.org.hk) It is only 11 pages long.

If you are trying to understand this system and have questions, I will be delighted to try to help if you email me. If you have a class or other group studying the system I will be happy to arrange Zoom meetings in which questions can be raised and answered.

Paul F. deLespinasse Corvallis, Oregon pdeles@proaxis.com