Quotes About Social

The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

For a vast number of people in India, there is no social support system. In their old age, parents depend on their sons to maintain them. That remains a reason for having large families and rejoicing at the birth of a boy more than a girl. A girl will marry and leave her home for another, probably accompanied by a considerable dowry. She is a liability from birth until her wedding day.

The urge to reproduce, once inextricably linked to sex, may have a connection to a neurotic fantasy of cheating death by creating an enduring legacy. You can test the primal strength of this cultural idea by noting how no one questions the rationality of reproduction, even in a world of rapidly dwindling resources. Meanwhile, people who choose not to have children often receive both religious and secular disdain as selfish, the breakers of an unspoken social contract, or simply odd.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

The biggest opportunity one can get in life, it is a chance to make friends!

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.