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Quotes About Social

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
~ Michael Polanyi
Close your eyes & imagine a world full of self-replicating little Stalins. Now open your eyes. You live in that world. It's called social justice & the little Stalins are SJWs. SJW = Stalin, Just Weirder.
~ Unknown
The very first child to introduce himself will be the one with the fewest friends.
~ Michael Robotham
second point is how to think about the very concept of personal responsibility in a mechanistic and social world. It is a given that all network systems, social or mechanical, need accountability in order to work.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
Research has shown that 150–200 people are the number of people that can be controlled without an organizational hierarchy.23 It is the number of people one can keep track of, maintain a stable social relationship with, and would be willing to help with a favor.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
~ Michael Sandel
Huxley blushed – he didn't expect that response, though he should have. You don't insult a Neapolitan to his face,
~ Unknown
Belief change comes from a combination of personal psychological readiness and a deeper social and cultural shift in the underlying zeitgeist, which is affected in part by education but is more the product of larger and harder-to-define political, economic, religious, and social changes.
~ Michael Shermer
7. The principle of reciprocal altruism—I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine"—is universal; people do not by nature give generously unless they receive something in return, even if what they receive is social status. 8. The principle of moralistic punishment—I'll punish you if you do not scratch my back after I have scratched yours—is universal; people do not long tolerate free riders who continually take but almost never give.
~ Michael Shermer
The almost universal nature of within-group amity and between-group enmity, wherein the rule-of-thumb heuristic is to trust in-group members until they prove otherwise to be distrustful, and to distrust out-group members until they prove otherwise to be trustful.
~ Michael Shermer
The battle lines are well drawn: the microbes' genetic simplicity and evolutionary swiftness against our intellect, creativity, and collective social and political will. We cannot overwhelm the pathogens, because they so vastly outnumber and outmaneuver us. Our survival depends on outsmarting them.
~ Unknown
Maccoby's conclusion is that there is some kind of "prenatal hormonal priming" that predisposes boys and girls to respond differently to different kinds of social stimuli. That is, the male hormones that have washed the brains of boys in the womb produce a different style of play in boys three years later.
~ Unknown
Altruism is not an improbable achievement against the individualizing forces of natural selection; rather, it is an integral part of the social lives of all beings that live with others interdependently—up to a (mathematical) point. Everyone helps and gets helped, up to a point, because everyone is important to someone in some way, up to a point.
~ Michael Tomasello
In all, it is important to recognize the complexity and perhaps even unavoidable contradictions that reside within human morality. Its multiple sources and layers can never be applied consistently in all situations, given the messiness and unpredictability of human social life.
~ Michael Tomasello
Human beings today thus enter into each and every social interaction with me-motives, sympathetic you-motives, egalitarian motives, group minded we-motives, and a tendency to follow whatever cultural norms are in effect.
~ Michael Tomasello
Since one's moral identity is socially constructed, one must always be prepared to justify -both to others and oneself- why one chose one course of action over another. Justification means showing that my actions actually emanated from values that we all share.
~ Michael Tomasello
is a typology of four types of learning and experience that play key roles—at different ages in diverse domains—in human cognitive and social ontogeny: (1) individual learning, (2) observational learning (imitation and so forth), (3) pedagogical or instructed learning, and (4) social co-construction (prototypically in peer collaboration).
~ Michael Tomasello
Normal human ontogeny thus requires both the maturation of species-unique cognitive and social capacities and also individual experience in such things as collaborative and communicative interactions with others, structured by cultural artifacts such as linguistic conventions and social norms.
~ Michael Tomasello
Finding a satisfactory balance between cooperation and competition is the basic challenge of a complex social life.
~ Michael Tomasello
Our specific proposal is that the ontogeny of human cognitive and social uniqueness is structured by the maturation of children's capacities for shared intentionality.
~ Michael Tomasello
The second type of uniquely human executive regulation is what we may call social self-regulation. In this case, the individual appropriates the perspectives or values of others to use as a standard in the self-regulatory process.
~ Michael Tomasello
?kinci ?ah?s sorumluluk ve ikinci ?ah?s suçluluk, insan türünün ilk toplumsal aç?dan normatif tutumlar?yd? ve muhtemelen güceniklik içeren ikinci ?ah?s itiraz sürecinin bir tür içselle?tirilmesinden türedi. Ortak ba?l?l?k vas?tas?yla olu?turdu?u "biz"in temsilcisi olarak birey, ba?kalar?na hak ettikleri gibi davranmad??? için kendine itiraz etti.
~ Michael Tomasello
And so we have the most basic structural framework of uniquely human cognition: socially shared realities and the ability to flexibly manipulate and coordinate different perspectives on aspects of those shared realities (mental coordination). This structural framework fundamentally transforms great ape cognition by turning straightforward cognitive representations into perspectival cognitive representations. Moreover,
~ Michael Tomasello
In the ancient world religion was always closely linked to politics because dominant social groups realized that religion offered an effective means to legitimize and maintain their power and dominance
~ Unknown