“As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.” WorldSelfSpiritualSocialContact Book:Advent with Evelyn Underhill Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill
“No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.” MenHas BeensSocialRealizingHe ManStructureBottomContactSocial Structure Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.” IfsSelfOrderSocialSupportAcceptedContactFallenComplacencySocial OrderSelf Support Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.” FeelsDoeSchoolForceSocialParentDifficultCommunityClassEnvironmentDemandApproachNegativeInstitutionsStructureContactAliensAgencyMinoritiesOverwhelmingEntitledDominantNormHostileInitialsDisagreementNegotiatingSocial ServiceLower Class Author:Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot