LOST IDENTITIES! BUILDING AND DISMANTLING SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS IN ROMANIA
LOST IDENTITIES! BUILDING AND DISMANTLING SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Social intelligence approach provides a useful theoretical framework for looking at various social intelligence processes within society that can be initiated and developed in two complementary ways: actor-initiated process from top down and emergence social processes from bottom up. One the one hand, one of the actors that can initiate this process is the state. In this case, state institutions are supporting and maintaining the emergence and development of social intelligence processes within society. On the other hand, various agents within society (i.e. citizens, private firms, NGOs, so on) are the product of social intelligence emergent processes through their interactions. By this position paper we propose a complementary social intelligence approach. Our focus is Romania, a small state that provides interesting historical examples of both social intelligence processes. Our study is in a great measure descriptive, but in the second and third part, it provides an explicative and predictive viewpoint by the social mechanisms identified. Thus, in the first part of the paper, we present our theoretical framework based on social intelligence approach and the idea of network approach. We argue that there is a co-determination relationship between the concepts, social intelligence viewed through the agency lens and network approach viewed as structure. In the second part of the paper, we provide two examples of social intelligence processes. As a state-initiated process we provide Haret-Gusti social intelligence networks approach and as an emergent social intelligence process we provide at the enterprise level, the examples of MICA COMPANY BRAD and MARMOROSCH BLANK BANK. In the third part of the paper, we investigate a social mechanism that act as a mediating process that play a key role in dismantling of social intelligence networks. In this sense, we provide two study cases by which we explain the dismantling of social intelligence emergent networks within society. These will underline the orientation risk toward future in building social intelligence resilient networks within society.

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