Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The definition of society as identity group is most likely to be useful when combined with the instrumental functions of identity groupings. These take two key forms, with important differences. First, identity groupings are useful for individual decision making. Second, societies can be units of collective behavior and information processing. Disentanglement of these forms is needed.
Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Author: Paul E. Smaldino
Institutions: Santa Fe Institute, University of California, Merced
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4409113432