According to Bertrand de Jouvenel, “The essential freedom is the freedom to create a gathering, to generate a group, and thereby introduce in society a new power, a source of movement and…
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What Is The Best Group Size?
It makes sense that the family would be the foundation of the group, as interdependence defines both words “family” and “group”. However, this does beg the question – is there a perfect size to…
What Is The Foundation Of The Group? The Family
Interdependence is core in the creation of groups, but from where do groups originate? What are the earliest groups? This would be the earliest form of social interdependence, right? Afterall, cities didn’t…
What Is A Group? A Group Is Interdependence
According to Betrand de Jouvenel, “Groups should be regarded as primary phenomena of human existence” and “A progressive society is characterized by a great proliferation of action groups of all sizes and natures.”…
What Are Norms? Shared Standards For Group Behavior
Social norms serve as the invisible architecture that shapes human behavior across all levels of society, from intimate family dynamics to vast national cultures. While often operating beneath conscious awareness, norms create…
What Are The Elements Of Culture?
“Culture” is a dynamic, ethnocentric, integrated, learned, and shared social system of knowledge, traditions, beliefs, ideas, values, roles, norms, meanings, and symbols that defines a group of people and their way of…
A Definition Of Culture
The relationship between culture and societal sustainability has long captivated scholars across disciplines, from sociology and anthropology to political science and economics. While there is broad consensus that culture serves as the…
The Big List Of Quotes On Social Capital
Due to complexity of conceptualization and operationalization, “social capital” does not have a single definition. How can it? Just in consideration of our ideological differences, one can imagine thousands of context-specific possibilities….
The Big List Of Quotes On Trust
Trust seems familiar, simple, and we believe we understand the idea of trust intuitively even if a familiar, simple definition of “trust” remains elusive to our cognition. “Trust” is, in fact, fluid,…
The Big List Of Quotes On Groups
A group is a psychologically significant association of interdependent individuals. One relates objectively to a group for the acquisition of group roles, while one relates subjectively to a group for the acquisition of group norms and values….