Quotes About Social

Because of our tendency to want what others want, and because of our inclination to see the choices of others as an efficient way to understand the world, our social networks can magnify what starts as an essentially random variation.

For a few years after we either reach herd immunity or have a widely distributed vaccine, people will still be recovering from the overall clinical, psychological, social, and economic shock of the pandemic and the adjustments it required, perhaps through 2024. I'll call this the intermediate pandemic period. Then, gradually, things will return to "normal"—albeit in a world with some persistent changes. Around 2024, the post-pandemic period will likely begin.

Sadly, 12 percent of Americans listed no one with whom they could discuss important matters or spend free time.

Most human virtues, I would argue, are social virtues. To the extent that we care about love, justice, or kindness, we care about how people enact these virtues with respect to other people. No one is interested in whether you love yourself, whether you are just to yourself, or whether you are kind to yourself. People care about whether you show these qualities to others. And so friendship lays the foundation for morality.

Charles Mackay argued that people "go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

P]å både individ- och gruppnivå är det mer effektivt att gå ner i vikt tillsammans med sina vänners vänner än tillsammans med sina vänner. Problemet är detta: Om du försöker gå ner i vikt tillsammans med dina vänner så är det mycket möjligt att du lyckas, men det pyttelilla klustret som består av dig och dina vänner är omgivet av en stor grupp människor som utövar påtryckningar för att ni ska gå upp i vikt igen.

Alla har upplevt känslomässig överföring... . Men en ofta förbisedd aspekt av all denna överföring av känslor är att de inte bara sprider sig till våra vänner utan också till våra vänners vänner och ännu längre - även om vi inte ens är närvarande.

we carry within us innate proclivities that reflect our natural social state, a state that is, as it turns out, primarily good, practically and even morally. Humans can no more make a society that is inconsistent with these positive urges than ants can suddenly make beehives.

Ju fler vänner dina vänner har (oavsett deras känslomässiga tillstånd), desto mer sannolikt är det således att du är lycklig.

Att ha en stor social krets kan alltså göra dig lycklig, men om du är lycklig vidgar det inte nödvändigtvis din sociala krets. En position i mitten av nätverket leder till lycka - inte tvärtom. Ditt nätverks struktur och din plats i det har stor betydelse.

Den modell som bäst kunde förutsäga strukturen i de amerikanska senatorernas nätverk var faktiskt den som beskrev det sociala slickandet hos kor.

A afinidade é o lubrificante que permite que as interações sociais fluam facilmente.

As we've entered the computer age, however, our talent for connecting with other minds has had an unintended consequence.

The "chronic overactivity of those brain regions implicated in social thought" can, writes Mitchell,

Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values

False news spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."31

One of the great failings of the American education system, in our view, is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. Study-abroad

This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men and victimized women, but a messier realm of oppressive social customs adhered to by men and women alike. As we said, laws can help, but the greatest challenge is to change these ways of thinking.

America's schools rarely convey much understanding of the 2.7 billion people (40 percent of the world's population) who today live on less than $2 a day.

The people in Roseto smoked, drank and ate fatty sausages, but they didn't have heart attacks, and this protective influence of a close-knit community on mortality is called the Roseto Effect.

the fracturing of our society is grounded not in the weaknesses of a particular leader but in the inability of our institutions to deliver meaningful social progress for the average citizen.

The Net's interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

Generation C (people born after 1990) as connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented and always clicking.

AMERICANS ARE imbued with the notion that social systems proceed from ideas, because that is what happened at the founding of our country. The relationship of society and ideas can work the other way around, though: people can create social systems first and then invent ideas that will fulfill their need to feel that the world as it exists makes sense.