Social analytics

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Social analytics is a philosophical perspective developed since the early 1980s by the Danish idea historian and philosopher Lars-Henrik Schmidt. The theoretical object of the perspective is socius, a kind of "commonness" that is neither a universal account nor a communality shared by every member of a body.{{cite book |first1=Lars-Henrik |last1=Schmidt |year=1996 |chapter=Commonness across Cultures |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmyYVIlKkUkC&pg=PA119 |pages=119–32 |editor1-first=Anindita Niyogi |editor1-last=Balslev |title=Cross-cultural Conversation: Initiation |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-7885-0308-5}}