By Mark Jacobs, Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
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Certainly, too, the existence of contingent complementarities is a necessary condition for their exploitation, but the sufficient condition requires active agents to produce constructive and concrete syntheses from what is only a loose situational logic of opportunity. 32 margaret s. , which in practical terms represent novel areas of intensive specialization, such as radiophysics, molecular biology, experimental psychology and biochemistry. If and when they are successful (and defective syntheses are common), institutionalization usually follows, and as it does so more and more people are attracted to work upon the new source of cultural variety.
S. or the S-C. Consequently, proponents of epiphenomenalism advance rather crude unilateral accounts when explaining cultural stability or change. In downwards conflation, some cultural code or central value system imposes its choreography on cultural life and agents are reduced to bearers of its properties, usually through (over) socialization. In upwards conflation, cultural properties are simply formed and transformed by some untrammeled dominant group, which successfully universalizes an ideological conspectus to advance its material interests.
Itself. However, the consistent conspectus does slowly generate a sufficient differentiation of interests to unleash social disorder. S. density, as the complementary conspectus is explored and then systematized. Eventually, it becomes too great to be fully reproduced (societally or sectionally) because it has become too elaborate and expensive for all to share. S. density turns into the enemy of S-C equality, and the resulting hierarchy of knowledgeability progressively delineates different interest groups in relation to the CS.