(ART)iculation Theory

Articulation theory is the study of how relations of subordination and dominance emerge between individuals across the frameworks of norms and institutions that organize their states of affairs. As such, we must formalize this development in a dynamic way. Below, I utilize vector notation to illustrate interactions between the frameworks individuals reference when organizing their experience, indicating how exchanges between two or more levels of society and/or individual (events, persons, institutions) constitute the state of affairs under consideration. Afterwards, I develop a method to apply this framework to analyze current states of affairs. In so doing, I propose an analysis of what are, by definition, dynamic, complex, adaptive and paradigmatically constructed phenomena.