Simmel (1908/1922/1955)’s essay on conflict and group-affiliation research memos are located here as organized with Csikszentmihalyi’s (1975, 1997) flow state diagrams. It is important to note that Simmel’s perspective.
WARNING: Memo sorting tables may change at any moment!
Current Memo Sorting Table Layer 1
| ∞ Challenge | Anxiety | Conflict | [TS/SCI] | Flow | |
| Conflict | [REDACTED] | Harmony | [TS/SCI] | ||
| Conflict | [redacted] | Tranquility | [REDACTED] | Conflict | |
| [Stranic1] | Indifference | [redacted] | Conflict | ||
| Apathy | [Utopic1] | Conflict | Boredom | ||
| 0/0 | ∞ Skill |
Current Memo Sorting Table Layer 2
| ∞ Challenge | Stress | Anxiety | Arousal | [TS/SCI] | Flow |
| Anxiety | Conflict | [REDACTED] | Harmony | [TS/SCI] | |
| Worry | [redacted] | Tranquility | [REDACTED] | Control | |
| [Stranic1] | Indifference | [redacted] | Cooperation | Relaxation | |
| Apathy | [Utopic1] | Boredom | Relaxation | Coordination | |
| 0/0 | ∞ Skill |
Notes
1 The strainic-utopic dimension is based in Merton’s (1938) concept of strain theory and adaptation of individuals to the distance between cultural goals and institutional means (including implied social groups by way of characteristic classifications of adaptive behaviors along a typology organized by [REDACTED]).
References
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1975). Beyond boredom and anxiety. Jossey-bass.
Simmel, G. (1955). Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations (K. H. Wolff & R. Bendix, Trans.). The Free Press. (Original works published 1908/1922).