The ways of humans: modelling the fundamentals of psychology and social relations.
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.
Elstrup
Ole
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Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353, Copenhagen, Denmark. ole.elstrup@psy.ku.dk
D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008606:Mental Processes; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012961:Sociology