TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1526
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1526/
A1  - Wallace, Rodrick
TI  - Selection pressure and organizational cognition: implications for the social determinants of health
Y1  - 2001/05//
N2  - We model the effects of Schumperterian 'selecton pressures' -- in particular Apartheid and the neoliberal 'market economy' -- on organizational cognition in minority communities, given the special role of culture in human biology.  Our focus is on the dual-function social networks by which culture is imposed and maintained on individuals and by which immediate patterns of opportunity and threat are recognized and given response.  A mathematical model based on recent advances in complexity theory displays a joint cross-scale linkage of social, individual central nervous system, and immune cognition with external selection pressure through mixed and synergistic punctuated 'learning plateaus.'  This provides a natural mechanism for addressing the social determinants of health at the individual level.  The implications of the model, particularly the predictions of synergistic punctuation, appear to be empirically testable.
AV  - public
KW  - evolutionary punctuation
KW  -  health
KW  -  inequality
KW  -  information theory
KW  -  phase transition
KW  -  renormalization
KW  -  social networks
ER  -

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