Social organism is a sociological concept, or model, wherein a society or social structure is regarded as a "living organism". Individuals interacting...
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"organismality", the qualities or attributes that define an entity as an organism, has evolved socially as groups of simpler units (from cells upwards) came to cooperate...
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Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it...
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Superorganism (redirect from Super Organism)
between the organic and the social, not an identity: Spencer explored the holistic nature of society as a social organism while distinguishing the ways...
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as are many algae, whereas a few organisms are partially uni- and partially multicellular, like slime molds and social amoebae such as the genus Dictyostelium...
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Sociology (redirect from Sociology versus social theory)
cannot be encouraged beyond the point set by the condition of the social organism without undermining health. — Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labour...
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in 1860. In The Social Organism (1860), Spencer compares society to a living organism and argues that, just as biological organisms evolve through natural...
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Sociocultural evolution (redirect from Psycho-social evolution)
societies could as well. Human society was compared to a biological organism, and social science equivalents of concepts like variation, natural selection...
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A digital organism is a self-replicating computer program that mutates and evolves. Digital organisms are used as a tool to study the dynamics of Darwinian...
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control over the death of the individual must ultimately belong to the social organism, the state. This concept is in direct opposition to the Anglo-American...
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The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man is a book on psychology and neurology by Dr. Kurt Goldstein, first published...
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A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition...
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A juvenile is an individual organism (especially an animal) that has not yet reached its adult form, sexual maturity or size. Juveniles can look very different...
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Noology Panpsychism Presence (telepresence) Scale (analytical tool) Social organism Technoetics World Brain Pitt, David; Samson, Paul R. (2012). The Biosphere...
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functions (social inquiry, activism, subversion, deconstruction, etc.), becoming a more open place for research and experimentation. Art for social inquiry...
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Herbert Spencer (category Functionalism (social theory))
contractually assumed social obligations, is complex and differentiated. Society, which Spencer conceptualised as a 'social organism' evolved from the simpler...
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Steiner first proposed what he often called the "threefoldment of the social organism." Then in 1919, during the German Revolution following the end of the...
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This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum...
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Male (redirect from Male organism)
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the...
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Parabiosis (section Social organisms sharing nests)
"living beside." The technique involves the surgical joining of two living organisms in such a way that they develop a single, shared physiological system...
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Colony (biology) (redirect from Colonial organism)
be composed of two or more unitary (or solitary) organisms or be modular organisms. Unitary organisms have determinate development (set life stages) from...
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Heuristic (section Social heuristics)
Base and superstructure – Model of society in Marxist theory Social organism – Model of social interactions Dialectic – Discursive method of arriving at...
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effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY...
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(1910) ISBN 0-88010-409-0 Four Mystery Dramas (1913) The Renewal of the Social Organism (1919) Fundamentals of Therapy: An Extension of the Art of Healing...
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the 19th century, the sociologist Herbert Spencer saw society as a social organism and reflected about its need for a nervous system. Entomologist William...
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Cyborg (redirect from Cybernetic organism)
known as cybernetic organism, cyber-organism, cyber-organic being, cybernetically enhanced organism, cybernetically augmented organism, technorganic being...
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The Social Organism". Publishers Weekly. August 29, 2016. "Kirkus Review: The Social Organism". Kirkus Reviews. October 26, 2016. "The Social Organism: A...
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among organisms in the natural world. Computational social science is an umbrella field encompassing computational approaches within the social sciences...
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Artificial life (redirect from Digital Organism Simulators)
is, each organism contains a collection of numbers or other finite parameters. Each parameter controls one or several aspects of an organism in a well-defined...
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Ammianus Marcellinus (between 325 and 330 CE – after 391 CE). This social-organism metaphor, which has been traced back to the Greek philosopher and polymath...
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