http://enfascination.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Regulating_rate_of_social_changeRegulating rate of social change - Revision history2026-05-15T03:05:21ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.21.0rc5http://enfascination.com/wiki/index.php?title=Regulating_rate_of_social_change&diff=1514&oldid=prevSeth at 06:52, 2 March 20082008-03-02T06:52:14Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The rate at which a social institute can change can be regulated by the mechanisms that keeps the Catholic Church impressively steady and those that make student groups flitter. things like:<br />
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*institutionalized learning<br />
*seniority and long/ short terms<br />
*respect for tradition and consensus<br />
* restrictions on personal freedom<br />
* the opposites of those things.<br />
* large and centralized<br />
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An organizations rate of change should be tuned in line with what service it is providing and what kind of climate it is operating in. If it is providing a service that will always be needed, that all people need, and its long term survival is not a question, than that institution should be conservative/ have a slow rate of change. This will Insulate the institution from day to day/week to week/year to year confounds that will not have a lasting influence. Considering their universality, these organizations are also best large and impersonal. Organizations that support truly universal human needs and rights fit this.<br />
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An organization whose survival is very sensitive to its environment and that, in line with its goals, seeks to be responsive to the constant noise of a dynamic society should institute policy to prevent the influence of elements in the above list. <br />
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Influencing rate of change is one way of applying Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety to social institutions, changing the number of possible states of a system over some time by modulating the 'some time' part.</div>Seth