Categories of Conscious Action & Subconscious Function

1. Divided Action and United Action
2. Individual Action and Collective Action
3. Social Action and Function
4. Economic Action and Function 
5. Ecologic Action and Function

The individual may act in away so as to preserve oneself for individual or collective interests or sacrifice oneself for a strictly collective interest.  United action can be understood as collective action that achieves a specified, conscious, goal.  Collective action differs in that it can occur consciously or subconsciously.  For example, a nation, as it is common to all individuals, must produce or acquire the means to import food towards the end of economic securitization.  This would be categorized as collective-economic action.  This action, however, is in a fuzzy area between conscious action and subconscious function as it is based on the necessity of biological survival.  Ecologic action concerns the effect the individual and the collective has on the immediate and universal bio-social environment.