Social organism is a sociological concept, or model, wherein a society or social structure is regarded as a "living organism". Individuals interacting...

"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...

Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it...

between the organic and the social, not an identity: Spencer explored the holistic nature of society as a social organism while distinguishing the ways...

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...

in 1860. In The Social Organism (1860), Spencer compares society to a living organism and argues that, just as biological organisms evolve through natural...

cannot be encouraged beyond the point set by the condition of the social organism without undermining health. — Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labour...

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...

societies could as well. Human society was compared to a biological organism, and social science equivalents of concepts like variation, natural selection...

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...

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition...

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...

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...

functions (social inquiry, activism, subversion, deconstruction, etc.), becoming a more open place for research and experimentation. Art for social inquiry...

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Base and superstructure – Model of society in Marxist theory Social organism – Model of social interactions Dialectic – Discursive method of arriving at...

The Social Organism". Publishers Weekly. August 29, 2016. "Kirkus Review: The Social Organism". Kirkus Reviews. October 26, 2016. "The Social Organism: A...

contractually assumed social obligations, is complex and differentiated. Society, which Spencer conceptualised as a 'social organism' evolved from the simpler...

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...

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...

"living beside." The technique involves the surgical joining of two living organisms in such a way that they develop a single, shared physiological system...

be composed of two or more unitary (or solitary) organisms or be modular organisms. Unitary organisms have determinate development (set life stages) from...

(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...

the 19th century, the sociologist Herbert Spencer saw society as a social organism and reflected about its need for a nervous system. Entomologist William...

known as cybernetic organism, cyber-organism, cyber-organic being, cybernetically enhanced organism, cybernetically augmented organism, technorganic being...

Litwin Books, 2015 ISBN 978-1-63400-000-0 Foreword to Renewal of the Social Organism by Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophic Press, 1985 ISBN 0-88010-126-1 (cloth)...

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...

among organisms in the natural world. Computational social science is an umbrella field encompassing computational approaches within the social sciences...

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...

Look up social in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Social refers to the interaction of people and other organisms with each other, and to their collective...