The New Superorganic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2215721 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Allan Hanson (Rockefeller Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 467-482 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/422080 |
| OpenAlex | W2889830296 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
Despite proposals by Kroeber and others that society and culture represent a distinct level of reality, the prevailing opinion has been that they are abstractions from the behavior of individuals. Recently that position, methodological individualism, has been challenged on several fronts. Especially with the incorporation of artificial intelligence into many aspects of social life, it is no longer feasible to consider the ultimate unit of social action to be the human individual. Bolstered with a case study of the consequences of automation for the legal profession, the argument here is that agency should be redefined in a more expansive and dynamic manner that includes but is not limited to the individual
Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Business · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Expansive · Individualism · Law and economics · Methodological individualism · Political science · Position (finance · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Science in action
Essays in self-criticism
Beginnings
Perspectives on socially shared cognition.
Holding On to Reality
Cognition in the Wild
Selected Papers from the "American Anthropologist" 1946-1970
Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self
Postmodern Theory
The Concept of Mind
The Saturated Self
The Order of Things
Seeking Personhood
The Rules of Sociological Method
We Are Borg
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
Agency and Organization
Legal Research
Objectivity and Interpretation
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
A Century of Controversy
On the Politics of Theorizing in a Postmodern Academy
The Superorganic
Poststructuralism, Complexity and Poetics
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |