Title: SYNOPTICS, part V: application of the Synoptics model for the social analysis of the sovereign system

Authors: Herbert Rauch

Addresses: Institute for Social Analysis IfS, Schottenfeldgasse 25-27/533, 1070 Vienna, Austria

Abstract: This part V deals with the introduction to Synoptics as a method and theory of social systems as a psychosocial approach toward societies at large. It elaborates in the following sub-chapters those social systems which have reached the 'highest social rank', i.e., sovereignty. Today they are mostly realised in the form of the nation-state. The considerations formulated here concerning this 'height of power' are the biggest pillars characterising these social systems: population strata, institutions, traditions and the ecological territorial base. However, also these considerations reach an unexpected strict frontier only one step further: the step into the global era, which unfolds in the 21st century, with new heavy challenges waiting to be somehow solved by the next generation(s).

Keywords: Synoptics method; social analysis; hypotheses; psychoanalysis; psychic field; social systems; challenge principle; sovereign system; state system; psychosocial analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGENVI.2020.115931

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2020 Vol.19 No.4, pp.331 - 353

Received: 25 Oct 2020
Accepted: 20 Dec 2020
Published online: 05 Jul 2021 *

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