Human Association Within a Theory of Social Organization

Meg Patrick Tuszynski () and Richard E. Wagner ()
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Meg Patrick Tuszynski: Southern Methodist University
Richard E. Wagner: George Mason University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Reason, Ideology, and Democracy, 2024, pp 29-53 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 1 opened the book by exploring the idea of economizing actionEconomizing action as a universal feature of human action. This universal feature entails a rejection of any distinction between economic and non-economic modes of action. All humans reflect the property of economizing action, though this property is formal and not substantive. Social organization and human association co-evolve. We are unable to understand the way individuals, in particular, societies relate to one another without understanding the broader characteristics of that society. Individuals in societies where political corruption is rife, for example, will relate to fellow citizens differently than individuals in societies with little political corruption. Further, social change cannot “stick” without changing the way individuals associate with one another at the ground level. Economic calculation, as we explored in the previous chapter, always takes place in a particular social and institutional context. We closed that chapter by explaining how a more comprehensive understanding of economic calculation should open us up to the possibility that human coordination can occur through a broader array of associations than we commonly presume. This chapter examines how patterns of social organization acquire their shape through interaction among myriad human associations that form within societies.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69840-8_2

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