Quotes About Social

The rule says that favors are to be met with favors; it does not require that tricks be met with favors. A

Bad social proof in this situation. Temporarily disconnect automatic pilot.

Así pues, solemos seguir la corriente de aquellas personas de nuestro entorno a las que nos parecemos.

principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

automatic-pilot device, like social proof, should never be trusted fully;

Cuando la gente actúa al unísono, no solo se ven a sí mismos como más parecidos, sino que después se evalúan unos a otros más positivamente.

deberíamos estarlo. La regla de la reciprocidad rige muchas situaciones de naturaleza puramente interpersonal que no implican un intercambio de dinero ni comercial. Un ejemplo ilustrativo de esto es

quite frequently the crowd is mistaken because they are not acting on the basis of any superior information but are reacting, themselves, to the principle of social proof.

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor, we will be more successful if we provide a reason.

Um princípio conhecido do comportamento humano afirma que, ao pedirmos um favor a alguém, teremos mais sucesso se fornecermos um motivo.

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor, we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People

Little wonder, then, that the influential French anthropologist Marcel Mauss, in describing the social pressures surrounding the gift-giving process in human culture, can state, "There is an obligation to give, an obligation to receive, and an obligation to repay."12

Their aim is to divide and conquer: pit unionized workers against nonunionized, public sector workers against nonpublic, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don't believe these programs will be there for them, and the middle class against the poor.

Yet neither the regressives' stop-at-nothing tactics nor their social Darwinist message would have gained much traction were it not for the stunning failure of Democrats to make the case for a strong and effective government that responds to the needs of average people.

Listen carefully to today's Republican right and you hear the same social Darwinism that was used more than a century ago to justify the brazen inequality of the Gilded Age: survival of the fittest. Don't help the poor or the unemployed or anyone who's fallen on bad times, they say, because this only encourages laziness. America will be strong only if we reward the rich and punish the needy.

Most tellingly, it was a time when the ideas of William Graham Sumner, a professor of political and social science at Yale, dominated American social thought. Sumner brought Charles Darwin's thinking to America and twisted it into a theory to fit the times. Few Americans living today have read any of Sumner's writings, but they had an electrifying effect on America during the last three decades of the nineteenth century.

Don't separate race from class. Racial discrimination is aggravating class divides, and wider inequality is worsening racial divides.

The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than the entire bottom half of earners—150 million Americans—put together.

Reform of our common life will not be led by socially responsible corporations or by enlightened CEOs. It will be led by concerned and active citizens.

The simultaneous rise of both the working poor and non-working rich offers further evidence that earnings no longer correlate with effort.

The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if we understood the social consequences of our purchases or investments and if we knew all other consumers and investors would join us in forbearing from certain great deals whose social consequence were abhorrent to us.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.