Self-construction of desirable social systems

Social systems are produced by people's interactions. They ave by and large the outcome of self-organising processes, which often produce undesirable properties like corruption violence and other forms of social malaise. Yet, we want transparent, fair and effective social systems. Explores some of t he issues involved in the production of desirable social systems. It is arg ued that this production requires more than self-organisation, it requires also the participants' awareness of the processes grounding their purposes and values in social reality and the else of this awareness to steer their recurrent interactions towards the production of a desirable social system. This is called a process of self-construction Understanding this process r equires clarifying the role of organisation in the transformation of collec tives into social systems. In the end, more than clarification this paper o ffers a research agenda.