“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.” ThinkingWayWellsBookLawCultureIndividualSocialTermTechnologyClearModernElementsMajorsArgumentTreatsVery GoodAgentsConcreteSocial ScienceAutonomousModern CultureScience TechnologyGood Reads Author:Richard R. Nelson
“Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.” WayCertainValuesIndividualSocialMoralPrinciplesTreatsCharacteristicsOrganizedAppropriate Author:Erving Goffman
“As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.” UseGivenSocialPowerfulMillionsTechnologyCenturyInformationParticularNewsTreatsOnline21st CenturyNetworkingCommonplaceCheaperSocial NetworkingInformation TechnologySocial NetworkAcquiescence Book:Who Owns the Future? Source: Who Owns the Future?
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.” IfsWorldProblemSocialSimpleEconomicTreatsInfiniteComplexesArisePsychologicalFinitePersistentEcologicalEconomic SystemsInterconnectedMismatch Author:Donella Meadows
“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingHumansDoeEnoughProblemLeftSocialDifficultJusticeChanceHuman BeingsCompassionComfortableTreatsSocial JusticeSelfishTyrannyResistancePityTrustedCoercionTolerableUnselfishnessDifficult Problems Author:Rose Macaulay
“The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.” HumansPoliticalHumanitySocialStuffHuman BeingsEssenceTreatsMereHuman LifePsychics Author:Laura Riding
“Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.” ShouldTryingPersonsRealIndividualSocialForgetSuccessfulMediaLike YouConnectionsTreatsSocial MediaReal LifeGenuineBeing SuccessfulSmall Business Author:Jeet Banerjee
“Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors.” IfsKnowsDoeIdeasSelfEnoughFactsStoriesUseMightLawSocialFictionBreakTheorySourceConsequenceTreatsScience FictionMetaphorPhysicsAliensProbabilityFrameworkShortcutsSocial ScienceLaws Of PhysicsScientific FactsFollow Up Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.” NeedsWellsChildrenRunningSocialParentJudgingInvolvedTreatsWorkersWell BeingWelfareClientsPsychologistIncompetentSocial WorkerAbusive Author:Mona Charen
“The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events and objects can be removed, but obstacles presented by social principles are hard to remove.” HardDesireSocialPrinciplesEventsObjectsTreatsObstaclesTreatedAbstractSicknessRemoveTaoismClinging Author:Zicheng Hong
“Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.” WayTwoSocialMediaEmotionalTreatsSocial MediaDialogueStorytellingBrandsOne WayTwo Ways Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.” IfsHateSocialPlansMy FriendsTreatsPopsStoresListsShopsHanging OutShoppingGroceriesLike SomethingShoppersGrocery Lists Author:Nicole Richie
“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.” PeopleKindLeftSocialLike YouTreatsSocial LifeMany FriendsSocial Relationships Book:Tim Burton: Interviews Source: Tim Burton: Interviews
“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.” WayHumansSelfSocialWorstAwarenessBehaviorEmpathyTreatsSelf AwarenessAdmireDisplayTraitsFinestElephantsHuman BehaviorSocial Intelligence Author:Graydon Carter
“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.” MenHumansMaySocialGoalFreedomLibertyHuman NatureObjectsEssenceTreatsSocial JusticeDenyDenialLiberalismTreatmentFree WillManipulationManipulateDegradeReformersDegradingPatronizingMistreatment Author:Isaiah Berlin
“Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'” HumansPassionEvilSocialJusticeLibertyEconomicConditionsSourceDemandEssentialsEconomicsTreatsSocial JusticeEnvyPreservationDiscontentSanctionsFree SocietyMillsCountenanceAnti Social Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.” MenShouldHumansPersonsIdeasFormSocialLeadershipHuman BeingsDecisionBusinessMoralEconomicMen And WomenEconomicsTreatsResponsibleCommunistCapitalistCreedsUnitsDeterminismDealingsFresh IdeasMoral DecisionsResponsible Person Author:Davis McCaughey
“The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.” PeopleShouldIdeasDifferentStatesOrderPoliticsSocialJusticeEqualTreatsSocial JusticeDifferent Peoples Author:Friedrich August von Hayek