The third level of Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) deals with the deeper worldviews and ideologies that shape a phenomenon and influence our understanding of it.
This level goes beyond obvious symptoms and systemic causes and uncovers the often unconscious assumptions, values, and dominant discourses that legitimize and shape structural conditions.
The researcher Inayatullah already highlighted in 2005 that here the social, linguistic, and cultural structures are exposed, which operate independently of individual actors and constitute the way a problem is perceived.
This section illuminates how deeply rooted beliefs and ways of thinking support existing systems and how different discourses not only influence but actively shape the phenomenon. From the analysis of these worldviews, fundamentally different solutions and future scenarios can emerge.
