The Problem of the Social Goal-Objective Formation in Democratic Societies of Collective Decision-Choice Systems

Abstract

Every theoretical construct must define the space of analysis. This space must contain the questions and problems that are of interest to cognitive agents. These problems and questions must relate to social set-ups and natural order. In this frame, theory is about problem solving, as well as a search for answers to questions. These problems and questions arise out of social exigencies which keep on creating new ones as existing problems get solved and existing questions get answered. Theories are, thus, not about purely intellectual activities for their own sake but directional attempts for explanation and prescription. These problems and questions are part of the initial information structure and its evolution for continual knowing. Every social formation is composed of the individuals and the collective in the social action space that must reveal the individual and collective behavioral actions in the decision-choice system. The study of the behavior of any society may proceed by studying the individual and collective choice-behavior and how the individual behaviors interact to produce the observed individual and collective outcomes. It is from the structure of the social set-up that attention must be paid to the individual-community duality as a conceptual foundation in dealing with the problems of explanation and prescription in the social system and its qualitative and quantitative dynamics as it interacts with resources for individual and collective survival.