ABSTRACT
Systemic inquiry is to enable inquirers to comprehend the complexity and systemicity of the whole system studied. The six resources are common ones for research. Researchers draw upon them for impetus, when systemic change is implied, to construct their methodologies for human inquiry. The resources are theory, expertise, experience, practice, simulation, and innovation. Since much of the work with systemic forms of methodology involve the more connotative meanings of theory, it is instructive to consider a topology of manifestations that theory may take. It is important to keep in mind in advancing any systemic inquiry to systemic change which kind of theory applies. Inquiry entails an emergent human activity system. It involves the convergent interactions of the six resources that are for the inquirers to make their system comprehensible and consequential systemic change visible. The resources represent yet another kind of complexity in methodology and systemic change.
