From Human Social “Matrix” to Perception of Social Structures and Corporate Actors

Abstract

Corporate actors like institutions, corporations, governments, companies, organizations, political parties, universities, NGOs, states, interest groups, associations and all other supra-individual collectives play a key-role for the socialization of human beings and for the creation of the reality we believe in and live with. The creation of these realities within our socialization leads to different matrices forging our self-understanding and influencing our behavior, lifestyle, ideals, goals and conducts. “Wirklichkeit” – actualitas – as a term going beyond the significance of reality, is a creation/invention of the human brain and also the most important building blocks of our world-views base their existence only on agreements between individual human actors: Corporate actors are considered as legal persons within our juridical systems, seem to be acting as independent entities, outlast the single actors steering them from within and have a vast impact on our lives, but in the end they only persist due to the fact that there is a common consent about their necessary existence. Different theories, mostly within sociologic frames, approach the role supra-individual entities fill out in our societies but do hardly take into account the gap between individual und corporate actors. The “Extended View” as “real theory” in the sense of Einstein’s logics classifies corporate actors as para-autonomous actors with clearly defined abilities and structures. On behalf of this theory a step to understand in an emergent way the creation of social structures as human social matrices and the characterization of supra-individual collectives within and in constant relation with these matrices is tried to be made.