“There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingReasonDoneStoriesFormEasyEmotionProtectAssumingShellsBehaviourProtect Yourself Author:Kate Dickie
“The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life than because discrete parts of a lifestyle can be changed. Health-change policies which focus entirely on the individual may be ineffective not only because exposure to health risks is largely involuntary, but also, as this study has shown, because of unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which behaviour can, in these circumstances, be effective in improving health.” MayIndividualDifferencesStudyFocusRiskPolicyChangedCircumstancesEvidencePatternsLifestyleAssumptionRelevantElsewhereBehaviourImprovingExposurePromotionInvoluntaryDiscreteHealth Promotion Author:Mildred Blaxter
“Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.” ThinkingWellsMayMeanLightTodayTermLevelsPracticeTakenRiskModernTomorrowCircumstancesAspectClaimsPhilosophicalInstitutionsConstantProfoundEverydaySeekingGrantedOutcomesCharacteristicsAppropriateInterpretationAcceptableBehaviourRapidsMomentumAlteredTaken For Granted Author:Anthony Giddens
“A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.” FormLanguageCrowdsPushingWillingnessBehaviourObserversGentlenessEnglish LanguageOrderlyQueues Author:George Mikes
“Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.” PeopleHumansEyeInterestingRaceMediaMetsPolicePrisonHuman RaceBehaviourObserversGreat Times Author:Jonathan King