There has been a lot of work done on both over-socialised systems (where individual cognition is irrelevant) and under-socialised systems (where social processes can be ignored). The division between these approaches is so sharp that it plays a major part defining whole academic fields: AI vs. DAI, cognitive science vs. sociology etc. Yet some work is beginning to show that there may be substantial and interesting processes that occur when both cognition and social processes interact - what has been coined in (Granovetter, 1985) as "social embeddedness". This is hardly surprising as it is likely that our society and our brain co-evolved over a substantial period of time.

* What part does society play in the development of individual cognition?

* What cognitive apparatus do individuls need to support society as we know it?

* To what extent are our perceptions and thoughts socially constructed?

* Would society be different if we thought differently?

* What role does society play in the construction of concepts?

* What is necessary for us to recognise an agent as a social being?

* What is the best ways to analyse and model socially embedded processes?

* How can we begin to untangle the social-cognitive complex?

* How can we develop socially embedded agents?

Granovetter, Mark (1985), "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness", American Journal of Sociology 91(3): 481-510