Tuesday, 8 November 2022

What is a society?




 "There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first." Margaret Thatcher. https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-midterms-could-determine-whether-us-joins-ominous-global-fascist-wave/?

"A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members. In the social sciences, a larger society often exhibits stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society

"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses." Charlotte Perkins Gilman https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charlotte_perkins_gilman_402139?src=t_women

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. War is what happens when language fails. People use technology only to mean digital technology. Margaret Atwood. margaretatwood.ca quotes

What do you think? You have probably been schooled by family and education. And your own observations.


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