The triadic framework is used to explain how American society, for example, is understood in terms of
its economic activity, its social activity and its political activity. Then, on the more detailed level of triadic
thinking, the economic sphere is explained in terms of consumption activity, production activity and market
exchange that define the nature of that activity. The social sphere is explained within the triadic formwork by
living standards, associative arrangements and the community's aesthetic life. The third political sphere is
explained essentially in terms of Montesquieu's (1952/1748) powers of the executive, the judiciary and the
legislature.
