Social knowledge

It is noteworthy that the elements of CMM theory overlap with some of the social situation categories reported earlier in the chapter. In particular, there is a commonality in the area of rules and sequences of behaviour and a link between the cognitive structures or social knowledge and cultural patterns. The link should not be surprising, since the CMM elements are in effect a more focused treatment of social situations where it is already established that the goals of the participants are to interact successfully and the environmental setting component that appears in the social situations framework is not specifically considered. 

Social knowledge Primates carry a store of social information about their companions characteristics, relationships and past behaviour, which they can apply to novel social situations. The extent of knowledge about who is affiliated with whom, and who did what to whom in the past, was strikingly demonstrated by vervet monkeys enhanced tendency to fight with the relatives of a monkey who attacked their own kin sometime in the last two hours (Cheney Seyfarth 1990). 

Houle I was struck by your list of characteristics of what might be social intelligence, in terms of going to primate societies, and how easy that would be to apply to humans. One could ask people about their social relations and empirically determine the relationship between g and the aspects of social knowledge or social prediction. Has anyone done that ... 

The impact of engineering on the environmental, social, knowledge and economic systems in modem culture... 

Wu, H., Zubair, M., Maly, K. Harvesting Social Knowledge from Folksonomies. In HYPERTEXT 06. Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, pp. 111-114. ACM Press, New York (2006)... 

Collins, H. (1990). Artificial exjrerts Social knowledge and intelligent machines. Cambridge, MA MIT Pres.s. 

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