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“As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.”

Faces Social Easy Media Information Internet Behavior Function Crisis Social Media Access Thanks Brands Consumers Ease Multiple Access To Information Easy Access

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”

Art Matter Form Culture Energy Social Cities Creativity Function Symbols Chiefs Reproduction City Life Cities At Night

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”

Doe Use Literature Social Ability Function Definite Vacuums Social Service

Author:Ezra Pound

“Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.”

People Real Individual Social Numbers Economy Rights Exercise Speech Benefits Function Property Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Property Rights

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”

Needs Giving Social Pleasure Consciousness Rich Example Industry Function Luxury Multitudes Organisms Incentives No Sympathy Idlers

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”

Thinking Age Social Virtue Nice Risk Wall Easier Safe Function Twenties Oneself Settling Upset Prisoner Organisms Hierarchy Rest Of Your Life Making Changes Disapproval

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim-- except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.”

“If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!”

Ifs Way Children Social Parent Business Judgment Function Mere Advertising Our Time Parental Degrading Insolent Usurpers

Author:Jules Henry

“Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.”

Kind Actors Individual Social Acting Roles Identity Function Theatre Examination Laboratory Social Roles

Book:Drama, Metadrama and Perception

Source: Drama, Metadrama and Perception

“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.”

“During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete. Science has become an integral and most important part of our civilization, and scientific work means contributing to its development. Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race. I realized this aspect of science in its full impact only after Hiroshima.”

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”

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Author:Talcott Parsons

“Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.”

“Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.”

Stills Social Capitalism Function Consumers Goods Fulfilling Cheaper

Book:Planned Chaos

Source: Planned Chaos

“Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.”

Men States Individual Social Existence Function Aim Soldier Producers Priests Divided Scholar Joints Statesmen Human Existence

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.”

Social Organization Function Simplicity Complexity Anarchy Multiplicity Social Organization

Author:Colin Ward

“I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Matter Certain Social Function Actresses

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function”

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Book:Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Source: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

“What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression”

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Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.”

“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.”

Social Wall Function Prisoner Organisms Disapproval

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.”

Ifs Love Long Together Social Sex Term Function Species Long Term Rely Ritual Seconds Mates Sole Ceremony Courtship Mammals

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.”

People Firsts Children Individual Social Memories Levels Attention Development Higher Concepts Function Logical Formation

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

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