“Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.” PeopleLawSocialProcessMoralReturnMoralityNegativeInputDiminishing Returns Book:Knowledge And Decisions Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.” IfsMomentsLife IsSocialCuttingMediaNegativeSocial MediaNegative Experiences Author:Kim Stolz
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.” ProblemScienceSocialNaturalConditionsEventsLessonsNegativePressesInstancePrimeRelativitySocial ScienceNatural ScienceCorrelation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.” MenFeelsFeelingsSocialSexRolesNegativePrimariesLeisureVaryOptionalAmbivalenceNegative FeelingsSocial Roles Author:Alice S Rossi
“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