Subclass of:

• sdh:C9 Intentional Entity

Superclass of:

• crm:E74 Group

Scope note:

Persons who share the same representations, i.e. the same views or conceptualizations of things in the world, or the same know-how and practical attitudes, and collective emotions, or the same language, without acting collectively and therefore without being an identifiable crm:E74 Group but being generally aware of sharing these conceptualizations or views with other people and thus having, at least to a certain extent, a common social identity based on social representations and collective intentionality.

The fact of sharing representations, and knowing to share them with other people, is what constitutes in the most general sense a human intentional collective or social context, besides relations of social power based on acceptance of collective rules, or plans to act together. Individuality is realised in the context of this substrate, i.e. the sharing and adopting, and contributing to the development of social representations.

The present class is modelled without taking a stand in the ongoing debate about the nature of collective intentionality: is it simply the sum of individual intentions or does it express something more substantial in the sense of an intentional collective ? The class is open to both interpretations and one can choose to use or not the sdh:C25 Intentional Collective class for expressing collective intentionality, or provide specific types to the sdh:C26 Representations, e.g. 'social representations' for modelling views and conceptualizations shared by groups and societies.

In the perspective of social psychology and social sciences, individual intentionality cannot exist outside a socialisation that shapes the language and categories of thought of humans. Individuality is realised in the context of this substrate, i.e. the sharing and adopting, or contributing to the development of social representations. Beyond its irreducible individuality, a person embodies, and specialises, an intentional collective which he or she helps to achieve and contributes to evolve. This constant interaction between persons and intentional collectives appears to be one of the foundations of social life.

Examples:

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Context notes:

About the "Central Problem": a. Collective intentionality is no simple summation of individual intentionality (the Irreducibility Claim); b. Collective intentionality is had by the participating individuals, intentionality is their own (the Individual Ownership Claim, see Schweikard, David P. and Hans Bernhard Schmid, "Collective Intentionality", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/collective-intentionality/>.

This class is conceptualized in relation to the standard notions in sociology and social psychology of socialization and social representations.

• "Social representations", "Socialization", in: Thomas Teo (ed.). Encyclopedia of critical psychology. New York: Springer Reference, 2014.
• Thompson Michael J, "Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification ". Journal of Social Ontology 3, n^o 2 (1st June 2017): 207‑29, https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0017.

In the Descriptions and Situations ontology the present class is conceptualized as a  "Knowledge community [i.e.] a collection of agents unified by descriptions that are shared by the member agents". (Gangemi Aldo, « Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives. », Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst. 17 (1), 2008, pp. 70‑112, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-008-9038-9. )

In First Order Logic:

• C25(x) ⇒ C9(x)

Outgoing properties:

• sdh:P36 has manifestation in (is manifestation of) (0,1:1,1) → crm:E4 Period