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How Can Groups Avoid Social Dilemmas? Cooperation

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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…

What Is The Best Group Size?

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

The behaviors of members of groups of all sizes, from the family unit to the sovereign nation, are regulated by those norms that dictate what is/isn’t socially acceptable within that group. Norms are a…

What Are The Elements Of Culture?

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

“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

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

Culture is core to a sustainable society, but what is meant by “culture” and how do we define the word? On culture, Francis Fukuyama wrote: “A thriving civil society depends on a people’s habits,…

The Big List Of Quotes On Social Capital

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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

Posted on May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 by Brian Colwell

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….

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