Social outcomes depend on joint causation, making individualist rule-following wrong for policy

Evidence

I designate as the content—the materials, so to speak—of sociation everything that is present in individuals (the immediately concrete loci of all historical reality)—drive, interest, purpose, inclination, psychic state, movement—everything that is present in them in such a way as to engender or mediate effects upon others or to receive such effects. In themselves, these materials which fill life, these motivations which propel it, are not social. Strictly speaking, neither hunger nor love, work nor religiosity, technology nor the functions and results of intelligence, are social. They are factors in sociation only when they transform the mere aggregation of isolated individuals into specific forms of being with and for one another, forms that are subsumed under the general concept of interaction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194; Any single policy leaves most citizens feeling shortchanged; Economic assumptions of atomized action contradict observed social reality — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 20 (+6 more)

Related

• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.82)
• Economic assumptions of atomized action contradict observed social reality (similarity 0.81)
• Social orders integrate at the level of attributed motives (similarity 0.81)
• Sociology and economics rest on opposite models of the actor. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194