The Social World
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People and the ideas that have them.
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Books (9)
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⭐ Recommended499 pages[recommended but under copyright]
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Canonical Works (7)
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can you point out a fruit of giving that’s apparent in the present life?
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seven principles that prevent decline
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Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh.
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The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die.
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these hours were often spent in the company of close friends: women and adolescent girls used the twilight to enjoy the company of female friends, while some youth reported visiting friends’ houses where they played and listened to music, completed their homework or chatted. Others spent their pocket money on movies or karaoke.
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studies gave statistically significant positive results indicating that people really could tell when they were being looked at from behind
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engineering education successfully turns potential critics into agents of cultural reproduction
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Dharma principles are manifested in the social construction of norms and beliefs and in the ways macro-level social structures and change are founded on micro-level social interactions embedded in mundane moments
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Hearing about the latest reality TV show with 20 beautiful women chasing after a rich bachelor, watching a commercial showing a woman getting excited about a kitchen cleaner, or even taking a class with a White instructor are all ways the environment can conspire to make us think about our social identities.
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humans exhibit a tendency to identify, adopt, and enforce the norms of their local communities.
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ways of understanding their [group’s] distinctiveness which challenge dominant characterizations with the goal of greater self-determination
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Sexual harassment is more prevalent for women supervisors than for women employees.
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studies suggest that diversity statements [should] be aspirational, emphasize autonomy, and express a value for difference
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When I took the stand at the trial in San Francisco in 1993 I could not have done worse
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Hannah Arendt knew what was at stake. In 1951, she published a hefty book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which traced the roots of what was happening in Europe…
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Therapy assumes that someone is sick and that there is a cure, e.g., a personal solution. I am greatly offended that I or any other woman is thought to need therapy in the first place. Women are messed over, not messed up! We need to change the objective conditions, not adjust to them.
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Aśvaghoṣa twice refers to a story in which the ṛṣi Vyāsa was kicked by a prostitute…
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A community is defined by four criteria: membership, influence, integration and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection.
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a simple guide that shows you the term isn’t as cringey or scary as it’s all made out to be
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during this season we remember and celebrate the lives of all our departed loved ones
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a defense against reality
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The song goes on forever then it stops. Its basic idea is that time can be defeated for an hour if everyone breathes together, but songs are not made out of ideas
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An explanation of the fundamental asymmetry between matrilineal and patrilineal societies which gave rise to the patriarchy along with an examination of the forces pushing back against it.
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What kind of creatures are we? And how should we relate to each-other?
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in order to understand the truth of any situation, you have to start from the position that every person is equally valuable, and that what they have to say must be heard. And whether that is in a clique where somebody is being shunned and blamed for everything, or whether that’s an entire class of people whose experiences are not taken into account, it’s the same formula from the bottom to the top: let everyone speak and let everyone be heard.
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I would frequently see adults recount something a child had said that was particularly provocative or deep by describing it as “adorable.” “How cute they are.” Even well-meaning adults just kind of dismiss children’s larger questions and ideas.
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What should have been a difficult few months turned into 30 years of bloodshed and mayhem in Northern Ireland.
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We always say “Nobody knew,” and that means that everyone who knew was a nobody.
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how do you come to understand, make sense of, listen to, take seriously the observations and the reflections that come from people’s lived experiences?
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Back in the 1930s, Alan Lomax traveled the country recording obscure musicians of all stripes for the Library of Congress. Lomax believed that the culture of poor Americans was important, and worthy of saving. And it was these same beliefs that led to an investigation by the FBI.
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two stories of people trying to figure out what to say or if they should say anything in this moment of backlash.
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the fight for disability rights in the UK and India, the remarkable life of Helen Keller, how a Rwandan Paralympic volleyball team made history, and the invention of the Invacar
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how we see the world is dependent upon what we expect to see
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We wrote our names all over the city because we felt invisible. And it was fun. I existed when I did graffiti.
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the kind of tragedy that befell Tierney and her daughter can be averted if we appeal to the better parts of human nature
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On the six stories we tell to justify ownership.
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I take it for granted
If I could love you unconditionally
I could iron out the edges of the darkest sky17 min -
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Each year, Ma collects more and more superstitions
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You read the road as if it’s encrypted with what a father should say on a drive like this.
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i open the screen door slowly
n wait for Abuela n her red walker
to begin the procession
from the back door out to the street5 min -
Morning: walking my neighborhood, I come upon a colony
of ants busy at work…5 min -
I too have had my hands full of what keeps me
contained…5 min -
Across from me she
was crying badly…5 min -
We were thirty-one souls, he said, in the gray-sick of sea…
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The people I love the best
jump into work5 min -
all those bodies in Departures
are naked under clothes and scarred5 min -
when the day calls i will answer
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