Three energy streams of security culture – a theoretical research model in security sciences

Abstract

The chapter presents the theoretical framework of the transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary model by the name of security culture; a model which may be helpful in conducting research within the discipline of security sciences. The security culture model comprises non-military and military factors that provide people with the opportunity to raise security, both on an individual and a collective scale. The concept of security culture constitutes, among others, the scientific axis of a Polish academic journal Kultura Bezpieczeństwa. Nauka – Praktyka – Refleksje [Security Culture. Science – Practice – Review]. The security culture model, as presented in the journal, bases on the concept of the influence exerted on reality by three energy streams of security culture. These streams include: the mental-spiritual stream, the stream of organizational and legal interactions (split into multiple ‘beams’), and the stream of energy related to the material reality, that represents the physical design of social reality.