#Societies

India in Pixels

indiainpixels

What motivates a culture - guilt, shame, or fear?Source: @honorshame In cultural anthropology, there are three categories based on what kind of emotions motivate people. They are - guilt-based societies,

ロコちゃん - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

"What’s Wrong with Attacking Our Own Society?"Almost all societies have been highly ethnocentric ... teach their members that their own society is the best in the world ... but most

Vighnesh Nayak

_vighneshnayak

Some features of Status Driven Societies (as opposed to Wealth Driven Societies) A compilation of tweets by @kunalb11 which I found very interesting, thought provoking and relevant to read.THREAD

Steven Salaita

stevesalaita

Yay we're ridiculing a completely nativist, homegrown form of American fundamentalism by comparing it to the incomprehensible Islamic East again. The point isn't that there's no basis of comparison; it's

akhivae

akhivae

Roman Catholics need to study Pentecostalism. It exploded while Catholicism atrophied and now it's not hard to imagine a future where South America has more practicing Pentecostal/Evangelical type Christians than

Sanaz Ahmadi

kirakiradoll

Muxe, “two-spirit”, hijra & other “third gender” categories don’t prove historical existence of “trans people”. Societies have always placed homosexual men or gender non-conforming men into the category of “other”,

Ubadah Sabbagh

neubadah

Been thinking about this too and it deserves discussion. Twitter sucks for nuance but, I'll try. It's okay to have feelings about virtual conference registration fees, I do too. Thing

Alyssa Cole

AlyssaColeLit

Saw a response to my tweet about trickle down romanceanomics that said "Maybe your books just aren't good enough." I ignore trolls, but this is something many people think even

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

Some philosophers whose work I read in 2020 that I didn't really know beforeWang Yangming (1472–1529), neo-Confucian Chinese philosopher and generalJane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pragmatistPyotr Kropotkin (1842-

Satish Verma

satoverma

This typically happens when you neither understand the position of your opponents nor what you accuse them to be. Moral relativism is as old as the field of philosophy viz.

Mike Gilchrist MD MPH

drmjgilchrist

On developing a moralistic society: “…all societies must resolve a small set of questions about … how to balance the needs of individuals & groups … Paul Haidt, The Righteous

Ed Marsh

ted_harsh

Students’ unions provide society stalls for over 10,000 societies They run over 150 independent newspapers They host over 25,000 external speaker events a year They provide funding for those events,

Fonda Lee

FondaJLee

I've noticed that a lot of people think I write morally gray characters. Personally, I've never thought of it that way. I write morally gray *societies.* There's a difference. (And

Elham Fakhro

elhamfakhro

Following UAE-Israel announcement, several Gulf civil society actors and political groups issue statements refusing normalisation: (1) Bahrain: signed by coalition of seven political societies (nationalist leftist, islamist). Calls on govt

JJ

Jekeinism

In 1975, the National Population Council recommended that women should have access to safe abortions based on their health & well-being. The NMA and the Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians

akhivae

akhivae

Religious/conservative people in a modern first world society are extremely different, psychologically speaking, from people in traditional societies. Many do not realize this because they have never seen how a

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