Three-Hat Manner of Proceeding

Definition: Placeholder

The definition of the Three-Hat Manner of Proceeding is divided into four parts.

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Part 1 As used herein, a Manner of Proceeding is a Traditional way of Acting that becomes Habitual in a Person.

“Manner of proceeding” is an old legal term referring to how you conduct yourself at court with regard to a kind of proceeding.  For example - In this situation, you do this and only then do you do that.  You’ll embarrass yourself before the court if you do it the other way around. Military life, in general, is chock-full of Manners of Proceeding.

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Part 2 As used herein, a "hat" refers to a social role.  Busy parents wear many hats, for example.

The purpose of the totality of all social roles is to get the Needs and Wants of everyone in society met. Hence, Understanding the concepts of social roles, Needs and Wants is important to Understanding the particulars of various social roles or "hats."

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Part 3

Hat 'A' refers to social roles Leaders, experts and Ordinary People play in the context of the Ideomatic which, in turn, tends to Overwhelm them.

Hat 'B' refers a Person participating on different occasions in a Cohesion Project^TM or Cohesion Program^TM, specifically in Groups of people behaving and relating to one another and to others using Habits, Traditions, Visiting Practices and B-Meetings designed to get Needs met better than Hat 'A' alone.

Hat 'C' refers to the respectful acknowledgment by Group Members that all people ponder the meaning of human life and of things in general whether professional philosophers and skeptics approve of such pondering or not. (See Wikipedia article on Teleology.) People Act on their pondering, and many do so in the context of churches. The broader category in which churches reside is that of Civic Organizations. Hat 'C' recognizes that this entire category is important.

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Part 4

As used herein, the Three-Hat Manner of Proceeding refers to a Manner of Proceeding intended to develop and maintain the social influences of Hat 'B' over Hat 'A' such that the outcome in the Person's life is more Social Cohesion rather than more Social Fragmentation in addition to getting one's Needs met. In the Three-Hat Manner of Proceeding, the importance of Hat 'C' is simply accepted without getting into the details of a particular church, for example. Matters of a given church are outside the boundaries of the Three-Hat Manner of Proceeding but are acknowledged as being there and being important.

Here is the basic Proposition of the Three-Hat Manner of Proceeding - Hat 'A' and Hat 'C' - individually or together - are Inadequate in getting one's Needs met.  You Need Hat 'B.'