Socially Responsive Agents: A Foundation for Linking the Micro with the Macro
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How do micro-level interactions generate macro-level social structures such as norms, shared schemas, and power structures? We introduce the socially responsive agent, a procedural model of social action grounded in symbolic interactionism, structuration theory, and social learning. Agents interpret and adapt behavior in response to socially mediated feedback, allowing behavioral norms, cultural schemas, and influence hierarchies to emerge endogenously. By embedding meaning-making within a dynamic feedback loop, the model links formal modeling with cultural and interpretive sociology. In doing so, it specifies the micro-level processes through which social order is generated and sustained, providing a foundation for systematically linking action, meaning, and structure.
