Methodical Society: Families and Their Leaders
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Albert Einstein observed that God did not shot craps. This reflected the human discovery of order in the Cosmos. In society there appears to be this methodical order as suggested in the chart below. It seems very important that all persons be acquainted with its structure. No person would set out on a journey without a map of the country through which they will travel, therefore every person should have a map of the society to guide them on their travel through life. The study of society is called sociology and ranges from history, archeology and anthropology through philosophy, psychology, ethics and religion to art, science and engineering along with government, business and economics. This methodical structure is evident in all these aspects of sociology.
PERSONS--------------FAMILIES------------BUREAUCRACIES / / Types \ / Types Intellect Nuclear-Vocational-Voluntary Public - Private / Roles of Family Associates Leader-Manager-Entrepreneur-Apprentice The Methodical Structure of Society
Individual persons gather together within families and the families gather together within bureaucracies. Each is vital. The person can not survive outside the family and the family’s survival depends on the bureaucracy for goods and services beyond the family’s capability. The bureaucracy depends on families for continuity and on the person for their intellect. Finally it is within the family that persons play the roles of leader, manager, entrepreneur and apprentice. While these elements of society have been present since the beginning of the human being, no two persons, families or bureaucracies are the same.
The persons are motivated by their need for survival to apply their intellect. Their intellect is based on their ability to learn by repetitive thinking. Unfortunately there are never sufficient resources for individual persons to satisfy their desire that leads to conflicts between persons. The person’s intellect must constantly be exercised to control this conflict to achieve moral behavior.
Persons gather together within very informal families who as associates under various conditions and with varying degrees of responsibility play of roles of leader, manager, entrepreneur and apprentice. The family is the most important element of society since it serves both the person and the bureaucracy, as well as providing the base for the roles that persons play in society The family is controlled by the personal power of the leader, but because of the informality the number of members in a family is limited by the conflict between persons. There are three types of families: nuclear to raise children, vocational to produce the resources essential to sustain the family and voluntary to enhance the quality of their lives. The nuclear family is essentially immortal. In the case of the vocational families the leaders are clearly identified. The voluntary family is usually two friends that frequently lead to nuclear and vocational families. Morality is controlled by persons within the families and in turn within the bureaucracies
Bureaucracies gather together vocational families to produce goods and services beyond the capability of the families. These vocational families are organized in hierarchy at front line, middle management and the executive levels. The leaders of the front line families are members of middle management while the leaders of the middle management families are members of the executive family. The bureaucracy wh
About the Author
Warren Eister grew up in Sunbury, Pennsylvania and received a chemical engineering degree from Bucknell University in 1940. While employed by Dupont at what became the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he was involved in the development of plutonium production, a chemical element not in his college text books. In 1984 he retired from the Department of Energy where he was involved in the development of plutonium waste disposal. During that time he managed technology development for many nuclear applications for several corporations and government agencies. When he retired he proposed to teach an introduction to management for engineers, which evolved into this introduction to the methodical society for high school students. This evolution resulted from applying the methodical approach of engineering that transforms science into technology of benefit to society.