Editing Homeostasis (section)

===Society and culture===
The use of sovereign power, codes of conduct, religious and cultural practices and other dynamic processes in a society can be described as a part of an evolved homeostatic system of regularizing life and maintaining an overall equilibrium that protects the security of the whole from internal and external imbalances or dangers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Damasio|first1=Antonio |title=The Strange Order of Thinkgs: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures  |date=2018 |publisher=Pantheon Books |page=27|isbn=978-0-307-90876-6|location=New York|edition=e-book|author1-link=Antonio Damasio}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaughan-Williams|first1=Nick  |title=The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics  |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge- Taylor and Francis |chapter=Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and the ' nomos ' of contemporary political life |isbn=978-1-315-61275-1 |location=London |editor1-last=Prozorov |editor1-first=Sergei |editor2-last=Rentea |editor2-first=Simona|page=146}}</ref> Healthy [[The Civic Culture|civic cultures]] can be said to have achieved an optimal homeostatic balance between multiple contradictory concerns such as in the tension between respect for individual rights and concern for the public good,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lim |first1=Tae-Seop |last2=Ahn |first2=Seokhoon |title=Dialectics of culture and dynamic balancing between individuality and collectivity  |journal=Journal of Asian Pacific Communication |volume=25 |issue=1 |doi=10.1075/japc.25.1.04lim |pages=63–77 |year=2015}}</ref> or that between governmental effectiveness and responsiveness to the interests of citizens.<ref>{{cite journal| title= Rethinking the Origins of Civic Culture and Why it Matters for the Study of the Arab World | last1= Wickham |first1=Carrie Rosefsky |date= 2020| journal= Government and Opposition|volume= 55|issue=1| doi= 10.1017/gov.2019.12 | pages= 1–20| s2cid= 151139202 | doi-access= free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pavone |first1=Tammaso |date=2014 |title=Political Culture and Democratic Homeostasis: A Critical Review of Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba's The Civic Culture  |publisher=Princeton University |url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/tpavone/files/almond_verba-_the_civic_culture_critical_review_0.pdf |page=2 |access-date=2022-06-30}}</ref>