“If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.” IfsWantCultureChangeOrganizationCulture Change Author:Mary Douglas
“I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.” PeopleIfsFeelsRewardsBeing TrueMainstreamMainstream Society Author:Mary Douglas
“Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?” PeopleIfsBelieveRealityNeighborJealousyFrustrationRitualPreachingTranscendentBe EncouragedSupposingSupposing That Author:Mary Douglas
“Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.” IfsShouldSidesLeadershipChanceBehindsLeaderReadyCurrentsFollowers Author:Mary Douglas
“If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.” PeopleIfsWantReligiousGroupsCompetitionChillPiety Author:Mary Douglas
“If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.” IfsTwoMatterOrderLeftConditionsEventsProductsElementsApproachUniqueRelationNotionDefinitionsAbstractIsolatedDirtSystematicInappropriateRejectingHygieneClassification Author:Mary Douglas
