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This research seeks to explain why comprehensive systems of meaning regularly emerge in various social contexts, focusing on structural conditions that necessitate them.

March 5, 2026Open Access

The Structural Necessity of Meaning: Collective Dependence, Reflexive Evaluation, and the Self–Group Interest Gap

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Demonstrates the emergence of meaning systems in social contexts, indicating a structural response to collective dependence and self-evaluation needs.

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This research seeks to explain why comprehensive systems of meaning regularly emerge in various social contexts, focusing on structural conditions that necessitate them.
Develops a structural account integrating action theory and justification theory.
Analyzes the intersection of collective dependence and reflexive subjectivity.
Examines the historical differentiation of religion and modern secular ideologies.
Identifies the self-group interest gap as a source of evaluative instability.
Argues that meaning systems emerge as responses to the tension between collective positioning and self-justification.
Shows that these systems provide stability in relations to sacrifice, privilege, hierarchy, and contingency.

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Ray Naito (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a91e4cd6127c7a504c22d8 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18843146

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Demonstrates the emergence of meaning systems in social contexts, indicating a structural response to collective dependence and self-evaluation needs.

The Structural Necessity of Meaning: Collective Dependence, Reflexive Evaluation, and the Self–Group Interest Gap

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