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“Unlike most models of interpersonal networks, the one presented here is not meant primarily for application to small, face-to-face groups or to groups in confined institutional or organizational settings. Rather, it is meant for linkage of such small-scale levels with one another and with larger, more amorphous ones. This is why emphasis here has been placed more on weak ties than on strong. Weak ties are more likely to link members of different small groups than are strong ones, which tend to be concentrated within particular groups. [...] The major implication intended by this paper is that the personal experience of individuals is closely bound up with larger-scale aspects of social structure, well beyond the purview or control of particular individuals. Linkage of micro and macro levels is thus no luxury but of central importance to the development of sociological theory. Such linkage generates paradoxes: weak ties, often denounced as generative of alienation, are here seen as indispensable to individuals' opportunities and to their integration into communities; strong ties, breeding local cohesion, lead to overall fragmentation. Paradoxes are a welcome antidote to theories which explain everything all too neatly.”

SociologyAlienationSocial DevelopmentEquality Of OpportunitySocial NetworksCommunitiesSocial MobilitySocial CohesionStrong TiesWeak Ties
Book:The Strength of Weak Ties
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“Environment and Development (The Sonnet) Environment is not more important than development, Development is not more important than environment. Since we no longer live in the wilderness as animals, We must make both work together in agreement. Why do we need to wipe out forests and lakes, To lay the foundation for growth and prosperity! With our achievements in science and tech, We can build modern cities nestled in greenery. Unfortunately, once the green of dollar starts rolling in, Green of nature goes out of the window. The real problem is the mindset of profits over people, It has nothing to do with our desire to grow. Let us find harmony between concrete and nature. Without harming earth, let us build green skyscrapers.”

EnvironmentProgressArchitectureArchitectSonnetSocial DevelopmentEnvironmental ProtectionReal EstateSkyscrapersGreen City
Book:Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
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“సమాజాన్ని అనుసరించడానికి మీరు పుట్టలేదు, దాన్ని ప్రేరేపించడానికి పుట్టారు - దాన్ని నేర్పటానికి పుట్టారు - సమాజాన్ని నిర్మించడానికి మీరు పుట్టారు.”

Social WorkSocial DevelopmentNation BuildingSocial ProgressTelugu Quotes
Author:Abhijit Naskar
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“Need Teachers Not Cops (The Sonnet) The world needs less cops and more teachers, While cops enforce law, teachers instill accountability. Thus law enforcement only produces an illusion of order, It's the teachers who can create a crime-free society. If students are the future, teachers are future maker, So be civilized and focus on lifting teachers and students. Government of baboons invests in police 'n defense contracts, While a truly civilized government invests in education. Arm the teachers with books and students with sustenance, Then watch them accomplish the impossible future, A future of true lasting order, reform and harmony, Which a billion police cannot achieve in a billion years. Society that empowers teachers empowers peace. Society that empowers police empowers malice.”

EducationLaw EnforcementPolice BrutalitySocial DevelopmentCriminologyCrime PreventionTeaching As LeadershipDefense ContractorsDefund The PoliceTeachers And Students
Book:Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
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“The future of social entrepreneurship is no longer about looking up to a select few who have some kind of rare gift for implementing innovative ideas. Every individual and organization has a role to play in mobilizing skills, talents, and life experiences to move towards a more just and equitable world where all have what they need to survive and thrive in life.”

SustainabilitySustainable DevelopmentSocial DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentSocial ProblemsSocial EntrepreneurshipSocial EqualitySustainable Development GoalsEconomic EqualityEconomic Empowerment
Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice
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“Flow through the nerves of society as electricity providing sentience, rush through the veins of society as blood providing energy, and work in the bones of society as calcium providing stability.”

RevolutionaryActivistSocial ResponsibilitySocial WorkBe The ChangeReformerSocial StudiesSocial DevelopmentSocial ReformReformist
Book:Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
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“Social development is quite like memory consolidation in the human brain. Important memories meticulously get imprinted from old dying neurons to newly born neurons and unimportant memories fade away while making way for new memories to flourish. Such should be the course of societal progress.”

RevolutionBrainy QuotesSocial ChangeOrthodoxySuperstitionReformerSocial DevelopmentSocial ReformRigidityTraditions
Book:Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
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“It's time to be a hero, instead of holding out for one. The good people of history are all gone - MLK, Lincoln, Parks, Tolstoy, Teresa, Madiba and many more - all are gone, now it's time for us to be the new good people. We must be the new people - a new people with a new vision - a new people with a new perception - a new people with a rejuvenated and determined desire for equality, inclusion and assimilation - a new people bearing the torch of a new world, where religion is the people, philosophy is the people, salvation is the people.”

Social JusticeBrainy QuotesHuman RightsHumanitarianService Of HumanityInclusionBraveheartReformerSocial DevelopmentSocial Reform
Book:Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
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“A lot of people will see you as enemy because of your conviction of inclusion and equality, but do not move an inch from your conviction, especially when the very fate of humanity is predicated on that conviction of yours. Let me tell you a story which my father used to tell me when I was a kid. There was once a reformer in Bengal, the place I was born in. One evening he was walking by the river with a friend of his. Suddenly someone at a distance started shouting at him using curse words. The friend asked - why is the man cursing you, aren’t you going to say anything? The reformer replied, let them shout, it only means that perhaps I am actually bringing some change in the society.”

Social JusticeConvictionHumanitarianActivistSocial ChangeBe The ChangeReformerHatersSocial DevelopmentSocial Reform
Book:The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
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“Anybody can populate a planet, by consent or by force, but to master the forces of a planet, it takes valour, curiosity and a ton of insanity - insanity for justice, insanity for equality, insanity for upliftment - without this insanity in a handful of lionhearts, no amount of sanity can lift up the torch of progress. Be vigorous, be insane and use your force of life for the good of your people, your society, your humankind, nay, our humankind.”

ProgressHumanitarianService Of HumanitySocial ResponsibilitySocial IssuesBraveheartChange The WorldServing HumanitySocial DevelopmentService To Humanity
Book:Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
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“Luxury is the enemy of life, for it only produces disparity. Luxury must be banned from human society either by individual initiative, or by government intervention. We must have a clear sight of our necessities, and those who cannot see for whatever poppycock reason, must be made to see by means of law, that is, through wealth tax.”

PoliticsCapitalismEconomicsSocialismLuxuryWelfareIncome TaxSocial DevelopmentSocial ReformDisparities
Book:Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
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“Education is a basic human need which can certainly be considered a path to social development. Expansion of individual knowledge leads to expansion of civilized thought process and with the dissemination of such thinking the society develops and grows to the next level. This brings about social change and development with marked progress. Social development begins within the mind, with the desire to change and improve. This desire may have been inculcated through learning or observation. Such desires must be fueled towards progress.”

Educational PhilosophyEducation QuotesSocial DevelopmentEducation ReformSocial PolicyHenrietta Newton MartinEducation And Society
Book:SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – A PRIMER:
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