Social Groups Quotes - Page 2

• In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.

  John Dewey

  Children, Teaching, Emotional

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

  Brian Eno

  Mean, Technology, People

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Attitude, Men

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• Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

  John Dewey

  Groups, Social, Relation

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Country, Rights, Groups

  Statement to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 18 April 2008, New York, NY

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• I just feel like the people who are discouraged about religion, it's [really] the connotation of people that go to church. People that go to church love the Lord and they like to be around people who love the Lord. It's a fellowship and it's a growth and it's a feeding for them that when they're in a social group of people who believe, it makes them grow spiritually.

  Reba McEntire

  Believe, People, Growth

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Ideas, Immature

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

  John Dewey

  Facts, Groups, Birth

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Country, Struggle, Government

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• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Giving, Political

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

  Alva Myrdal

  Loss, Wife, Suffering

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.191, Psychology Press

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• An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

  Robert E Lane

  Hero, People, Atheism

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• The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Adversity, Challenges, Despair

  "The Challenge of the Present Crisis".

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• Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

  Pope John Paul II

  Civilization, Availability, People

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• In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, Building Up, Groups

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• For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Self, Secret

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Being Outside", p. 271, 1985.

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• Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.

  Aga Khan IV

  Religious, Agree Upon, Space

  Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.

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• I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Philosophical, Thinking, Class

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 135), March 29, 1963.

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• Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Groups, Doe, Body

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis

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• The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

  Johan Huizinga

  America, Groups, Awareness

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• Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Believe, Science

  "The Open Society and its Enemies".

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