groups in general, and religious groups in particular, qualify as organismic in this sense". In 2016, Oliver Luckett and Michael J Casey wrote a book on social organisms called The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life. The book took the traditional concept of social organisms and compared and contrasted social networks to it. See also Body politic Superorganism Global brain Noosphere References Bibliography George R. MacLay, The Social Organism: A Short History of the Idea that a Human Society May Be Regarded as a Gigantic Living Creature, North River Press, 1990, . Henry Rawie, The Social Organism and its Natural Laws, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1990, ASIN B000879AT2. Rudolf Steiner, The Renewal of the Social Organism, Steiner Books, 1985, . Oliver Luckett, Michel J Casey, The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life, Hachette Books, 2016, . External links Conceivia.com - Creating a new system of society. Social Psychology and the Social Organism Superorganisms Sociological theories