All Affordances Are Social: Foundations of a Gibsonian Social Ontology

Ecological psychology is built on a perception-oriented ontology. The primary focus has been explaining the perception and action behavior of individual animals. To accommodate social phenomena within ecological approach, it necessary to expand ontology, however theorists have unclear about how do this. paper presents negative argument positive programmatic outline. against use term ‘social affordance’, that confuses perspective researcher with animal. Instead, advocated we adopt, as working hypothesis, claim all affordances are social; is, public are, in principle, observable by third party. outline then shows alone insufficient for describing meaning. An ontology requires new tools interaction processes, symbolic meaning, material culture structures occurring populated environment.