Fully Functioning Society

Abstract

The concept of a fully functioning society (FFS) is grounded on principles of community agency that are enacted through discursive substance and infrastructural place, the arenas of organizational operations and emergent discourse that enlighten decision making to align interests. Agency is the capacity to act in ways that serve to achieve, to accomplish. An FFS assumes that humans are inherently propositional and narrative in their enactment of societies as shared interests. It is achieved through shared governance whereby all individuals and organizations achieve individual agency through collective agency based on emergent-discourse-based power sharing, rather than by limiting emphasis to the agency of organizations. This paradigm shifts the focus from one based on individuals serving organizations to one that challenges organizations to serve the community. Collective agency presumes comanaging risk, uncertainty, and conflict.