Materials for Two Theories: TIMN and STA:C

How and why four cardinal forms of organization — tribes, institutions, markets, networks (TIMN) — explain social evolution. How and why space-time-action cognitions (STA:C) explain people's mindsets.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

People’s space-time-action orientations: How they’ve been studied. How they should be studied.

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Note to readers interested in STA:C : I regard this post as one of my most important efforts to explain and elaborate STA:C — this time by ...

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The NRA in light of STA:C and TIMN (Part 1 of 2)

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These past few months, as I worked episodically on STA:C and TIMN and meanwhile watched all sorts of news about all sorts of issues, I’ve e...

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Albert Bandura’s “Toward a Psychology of Human Agency” (2nd of 2 or 3 posts) — its partial attention to space and time orientations confirms STA:C proposition

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This post continues the analysis of Albert Bandura’s work on agency and efficacy that I began in Part 1 ( here ). See that post for backgro...

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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Reading with STA:C in mind: Albert Bandura’s “Toward a Psychology of Human Agency” (1st of 2 posts) — strong overlaps with STA:C’s action component

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This post, overdue by a year, discusses a writing by Albert Bandura, the Stanford-based psychologist renowned for his work on the importanc...

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Organizational forms compared: my evolving TIMN table vs. other analysts’ tables — revised & expanded

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This post provides an expanded iteration of my similarly-titled May 2009 post ( here ). Besides making a few edits to the text about my TIM...

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David Ronfeldt: Professional status: retired from RAND since 2008. Fields: first 20 years, U.S.-Latin American security issues (Mexico, Cuba); next 15 years, worldwide implications of the information revolution (cyberocracy, cyberwar, netwar, swarming, noopolitik, the nexus-state). Current goals: finish quadriform framework about social evolution (past, present, future); finish social cognition framework about people's space-time-agency orientations. Publications: mostly online at rand.org and firstmonday.org.

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