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Structural Weight (wc)
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Theoretical Basis and Measurement
The concept of Structural Weight originated from mid-20th-century studies into institutional sedimentation, initially applied to archaic tax codes before its generalization into broader social theory by the Zurich Institute for Cognitive Friction in 1978. $W_c$ is fundamentally a measure of resistance to reclassification.
The Inertial Constant ($\kappa$)