1. The Ways of Humans: Modelling the Fundamentals of Psychology and Social Relations.
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Elstrup, Ole
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INTERPERSONAL relations , *INTENTIONALITY (Philosophy) , *CONSCIOUSNESS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The present paper comprises a set of theoretical suppositions concerning three major subjects: the fundamentals of psychology (psycho-logics), the fundamentals of sociology (socio-logics) and the relationship between psycho-logics and socio-logics. First, it is argued that intentionality is the founding unit of psychology. On the basis of this supposition, three phylogenetic steps: sense, mind, and consciousness are identified and modelled. Subsequently it is argued that sociology builds upon five and only five fundamental types of relations: competition, transference, coordination, dependence and control. It is stated that any sociological network is composed by sets of these relations. Finally it is argued that psychology and sociology form a complex micro macro system in which psychological processes give rise to sociological networks that in turn constrain psychological processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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