The Institute for Structurization Theory @ Structurization.com
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Founder, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociologist, journalist, & historian
Dedicated to Ram Roy Bhaskar
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GThe Institute for Structurization Theory™ (IST™) is the theory and research agency of The MarkFoster.NETwork. Substantively, the institute has focused upon clinical sociology (including public sociologists as public intellectuals), advocacy journalism, cultural history, and religious studies, such as the Baháʾí Faith and Ṣūfism (Taṣawwuf). The website hosts the Critical Realism/Meta-Reality WebRing & Forum.

The institute’s dialectical unity turn is analogous to Ram Roy Bhaskar’s spiritual turn. Ontology (being) in Structurization Theory™ is the realist Unities Model. The fabric of existence is, not unlike Bhaskar’s cosmic envelope, a multi-layered enfoldment of eternal, unknowable unifying essences. Structurization (emancipatory agency or meta-reality) is relating with, and acquiring, the attributes of unities which can be identified by name.

A fallibilist epistemology (explanation of knowledge) is limited to essential attributes (events) and relative to human capacities and expectations. Methodologies are systematic applications of epistemologies. The qualitative human science methodology, freely offered as a clinical practice, is Heartfulness Inquiry. It resembles heuristic, intuitive, integrated, and organic inquiries, autoethnography, and others.

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