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Collective Acceptance, Social Institutions, and Social Reality

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

The paper presents an account of social institutions on the basis of collective  acceptance. Basically, collective acceptance by some members of a group involves the members’ collectively coming to hold and holding a relevant social attitude (a “we-attitude”), viz. either … Continue reading →

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Actions by Collectives

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

We commonly attribute actions to collectives. Thus, we use locutions like ‘Firm F produced the goods G’, ‘Nation N, attacked nation N2’, ‘The board dismissed Jones’, ‘The team scored’, and so on. On the basis of examples like these it seems to be … Continue reading →

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Collectives of intellectuals: Their cohesiveness, accountability, and who can speak on their behalf

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

As of late, the sociology of intellectuals has made important inroads into its object of study. Much of this has been achieved by problematizing the modes of engagement intellectuals undertake and multiplying the types of actors that can be considered … Continue reading →

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Collective Feelings: Or, the Impressions Left by Others

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This article examines ‘collective feelings’ by considering how ‘others’ create impressions on the surfaces of bodies. Rather than considering ‘collective feeling’ as ‘fellow feeling’ or in terms of feeling ‘for’ the collective, the article suggests that how we respond to … Continue reading →

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The Origins of Collective Decision Making

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

By uncovering their histories, Andy Blunden’s Origins of Collective Decision Making reveals a great deal about the character and feel of the consensus and majority decision-making paradigms. Blunden takes up a question that has received curiously little attention from scholars: … Continue reading →

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Collective Response of Human Populations to Large- Scale Emergencies

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require an understanding of how these patterns change when the population encounters unfamiliar conditions. To explore societal response to … Continue reading →

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On the Collective Nature of Human Intelligence

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

A fundamental assumption of cognitive science is that the individual is the correct unit of analysis for understanding human intelligence. I present evidence that this assumption may have limited utility, that the social networks containing the individuals are an important … Continue reading →

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Imagine there are no Leaders: Reframing Leadership as Collaborative Agency

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Fearing that our overreliance on an individual, heroic model of leadership will only continue to dampen the energy and creativity of people in our organizations and communities, this essay proposes a practice perspective of leadership based on a collaborative agency … Continue reading →

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Collective Animal Behavior

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors … Continue reading →

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Group Minds and Mindset – On the Identities of Crowds

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This book seeks to detail what we mean when we speak of human associations – groups, organizations and whole societies – as composite minds in their own right, with characteristic identities and changing mindsets of their own. The book’s first … Continue reading →

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