Sociocracy is a form of governance using consent-based decision making among equivalent individuals and an organizational structure based on cybernetic principles. Origin The word sociocracy is derived from the Latin and Greek words socius (companion) and kratein (to govern). It is English for the word sociocratie, coined in 1851 by Auguste Comte, a French positivist philosopher (who also came up with the word sociology) and later used by the U.S. sociologist Lester Frank Ward in a paper he wro… (More on Sociocracy)