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The works of Moscovici represent an attempt to bring together the psychic and the social, especially as rationality and irrationality are transversal to individual behavior and social activity. In this sense, the individual is no more answerable to psychology than society is to sociology. Simplifying the reality would be to simplify the knowledge of this reality. Moscovici’s psycho-sociology invites us to consider people in the round, with their mixture of logic and feelings, of reason and passions. In this way, we can understand the importance of the ecological paradigm in social sciences, as a way of understanding what connects people to a greater entity, linking them back to nature and their animal origin, as well as to technology and a post-human destiny.