Bracken, Joseph A.  "Energy-Events and Fields."  Process Studies 18, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 153-65.

Abstract

The author argues that Whiteheadian "societies" should be understood as environments or fields for the psychic energy-events ("actual occasions") taking place within them.  Furthermore, these fields possess an objective unity and exercise a collective agency derivative from the agency of their interrelated constituent occasions.  Unlike actual occasions, however, societies are not themselves subjects of experience which make "decisions" with respect to their self-constitution.  Where a society thus appears to act as a unified subject of experience (as in the case of a human being), it does so through the actual occasions constitutive of its principal subsociety, namely, the "soul."  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]