Group:
science
Topic:
civilization and society
Topic:
commitment
Topic:
communication errors between people
Topic:
ethics
Topic:
managing people
Topic:
meaning by social context
Topic:
religion
Topic:
responsibility
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Subtopic: utopia 
| Quote: all coercive utopianisms try to legislate the grotesque out of the world
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Subtopic: public health and poverty
| Quote: to attack heath problems in developing countries must attack poverty, nutrition, infant mortality and population control; e.g., Korea [»cbb_1980, OK]
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Subtopic: primitive vs. modern
| Quote: "primitive" people assume an underlying reality that is more complicated and elaborate than ours [»mitcR_1979]
| | Quote: in folk biology, hierarchically classify by life form, generic, specific and varietal; generic largest and defines the fundamental units [»berlB2_1973]
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Subtopic: cultural continuity
| Quote: cultural and social continuity must be recreated anew in each generation; ignored by modern social science [»weinGM_1979]
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Subtopic: equality vs. diversity
| Quote: the present age levels distinctions between teachers and students, kings and subjects; it empties life of significance [»dreyHL_1991]
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Subtopic: interviewing
| Quote: when interviewing contacts, list everything in the room; then use that list to write a full description of the setting [»wiggE_1975]
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Subtopic: social concepts
| Quote: many social and psychological phenomena exist because we think they do; e.g., marriage, money, trade unions; unlike biology or physics [»searJR_1984]
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Subtopic: experience
| Quote: the advantage of the old over the young is the secret history of our failures [»carrJ4_2001]
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Subtopic: social pressure
| Quote: social pressure can lead to misinterpretation, mistakes and accidents; strong influence on everyday behavior [»normDA_1988]
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Subtopic: limitations of social science
Quote: strict laws of social sciences are impossible because social phenomena have no physical limits on possible realizations; e.g., money, war
[»searJR_1984]
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Related Topics
Group: science (45 topics, 1960 quotes)
Topic: civilization and society (20 items)
Topic: commitment (31 items)
Topic: communication errors between people (4 items)
Topic: ethics (46 items)
Topic: managing people (64 items)
Topic: meaning by social context (33 items)
Topic: religion (50 items)
Topic: responsibility
(12 items)
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