{"id":8328,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/levels_of_organization\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:31","slug":"levels_of_organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/levels_of_organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Levels of organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat arbitrary classification that arranges and associates disciplines with particular levels along a hierarchy from &#8216;simple&#8217; to more &#8216;complex&#8217; systems. &nbsp;The levels themselves are meant to represent boundaries between the different disciplines and systems. &nbsp;Sometimes used synonymously with levels of analysis. &nbsp;Associated with either is the ecological fallacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Biogenetic process, <a href=\"bridge_law_-or_principle-\">Bridge law (or principle)<\/a>, <a href=\"bridging\">Bridging<\/a>, <a href=\"chaos\">Chaos<\/a>, Downward causation, <a href=\"ecological_fallacy\">Ecological fallacy<\/a>, General theories of biological classification, <a href=\"hierarchy\">Hierarchy<\/a>, <a href=\"human_connectome_project_-hcp-\">Human Connectome Project (HCP)<\/a>, <a href=\"isomorphism\">Isomorphism<\/a>, <a href=\"levelism\">Levelism<\/a>, <a href=\"levels_of_analysis\">Levels of analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"levels_of_development\">Levels of development<\/a>, <a href=\"open_system\">Open system<\/a>, Reductionism    <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat arbitrary classification that arranges and associates disciplines with particular levels along a hierarchy from &#8216;simple&#8217; to more &#8216;complex&#8217; systems. &nbsp;The levels themselves are meant to represent boundaries between the different disciplines and systems. &nbsp;Sometimes used synonymously with levels of analysis. &nbsp;Associated with either is the ecological fallacy.&nbsp; See Biogenetic process, Bridge law (or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/levels_of_organization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Levels of organization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}