Social

Sensemaking is a social process (Weick, 1995, p. 39). "When discussing sensemaking, it is easy to forget that 'human thinking and social functioning . . .  [are] essential aspects of one another' (Resnick, Levine, & Teasley, 1991, p. 3)" (Weick, 1995, p. 38).  "Many scholars of organizations are mindful of the intertwining of the cognitive and the social as in this informative definition proposed by Walsh and Ungson (1991): An organization is 'a network of intersubjectively shared meanings that are sustained through the development and use of a common language and everyday social interaction' (p. 60)" (Weick, 1995, p. 39). A person's "[c]onduct is contingent on the conduct of others, whether those others are imagined or physically present" (Weick, 1995, p. 39).