From Modernity to Morphogenesis was the CSO’s first annual invited workshop. The workshop was headed by Margaret Archer and the papers were published as Social Morphogenesis.

The workshop attendees were (in order of presentations):

Andrea Maccarini:
Network Dynamics and the regulatory process: a neo-structural approach to morphogenesis

Emmanuel Lazéga:
Regularity and Emergence: two frontiers in the morphogenetic approach

Pierpaolo Donati:
Relations of Authority, obligations and roles

Ismael Al-Amoudi:
The Morphogenesis of Social Networks: relational steering beyond positive and negative feedbacks

Wolfgang Hofkirchner:
Self-organizing as the mechanism of development and evolution in social systems

Kate Forbes-Pitt:
Emergence: relating emergents and morphogenesis

Tony Lawson:
Emergence, Downward Causation and Causal Reduction

Doug Porpora:
Social Change as Morphogenesis

Colin Wight:
Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System