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ME.17:3 - Forces

ForceTension
Cultural continuityPractice needs carriers and memory, while preserved artifacts can outlive actual use and recognition.
Deliberate interventionA team can change identified cards, descriptions, rules, Systems, Work occurrences, or direct relations within authorization, while it rarely controls the whole population or field.
Relation specificityGeneration, transmission, recognition, selection, retention, memory, and loss interact, while each needs different participants and evidence.
Local WorkIndividual choices and enactments are observable, while they do not automatically aggregate into a cultural relation.
TimeTransmission can be observed quickly, while retention and loss require later intervals.
ConsequencesCultural change should matter to practitioners or constructed Methods, while consequence and causal relation remain separate.
Case varietyInstitutional, organizational, and project cases illuminate different relations, while joining their histories invents a population.