ABSTRACT
The Theory of Social Organizing applies to domains like work, political, and family life. It rebalances Simon’s view of organizations as social units that demand means-end analysis and information processing. Hence, we focus on how humans manage change as they draw on distributed agency. Given ‘practice games’ or constitutive ontologies, we construct narrative selves, engage with each other, use systems and devices, and change our worlds. By hypothesis, human sociality transformed powers based in what the social intelligence hypothesis describes. Rather than turn to population genetics or psychological atomism, we adopt the view that humans are ecologically special. Use of artifice transforms primate intelligence into the intrinsically intelligent use of sociality. As a result, humans draw on the artificial by using multiscalar dynamics as they direct change. Investigation can make use of both observational and computational methods to explore how use of what Secchi calls process coordination grounds the use of means-end analysis in judging, at least roughly, what will bring benefits. By viewing life as its own designer, the theory of social organizing opens up how human lives enact wider socio-logic. We can look forwards to a future science of the artificially organized.
