33. Social Architecture - 2

Social architecture for the New Era provides holistic designs for the integration of systems within each of the pillars of society; and, for the integration of those systems into the whole of the larger society.  Those designs would provide for a self-supporting, self-reinforcing, even symbiotic relationship between the social, political and economic/financial institutions and organizations that supports their mutual stability and continuation, i.e., social sustainability of the individual/family. 

Industrialists understand this type of holism and organizational integration in the form of vertical organized industries much like an automobile manufacturer that owns the iron ore mines, the ore processing facilities, transportation infrastructure for raw materials and for finished materials, sub-assembly production, final product assembly, QA and QC assurance, wholesale distribution and then onsite retail sales.  As most societies exist now, their social institutions are horizontally organized (oxymoron), separated, competitive, conflicting and lacking contiguous integrity. 

Social architecture as has been explained in these posts strives to design the services of social institutions and organizations to follow the continuum of social sustainability of the individual from the pre-conception era through their childhood and on through their own family and career years, into their retirement and elder years until death.  This type of social architecture lends itself to the functional design of social institutions and organizations to provide a continuum of proactive services to their service audiences that promotes the social, moral and ethical sustainability of the individual and most importantly their family of origin as the primary enculturating social institution.  If the family does not enculturate the next generation to become socially functional and stable, then social sustainability for a whole society is deeply in jeopardy. 

When curious readers begin to appreciate the family as the stepping stone for the next generation to become positive and contributing members of their own family, community and society, they often are taken aback by the lack or barely minimal preparations that parents give to their children.  Social architecture that uses the values and principles of social sustainability does not take for granted that functional societies come into existence spontaneously, but only through carefully developed social designs that integrate systems of social institutions into a continuum that supports the integrity of the individual as they mature.