10 notes tagged with "society"
Belief Threshold
People tend to accept ideas that a threshold percentage of their friends also subscribe to. This can be manipulated by creating a Majority…
Published on 20th December, 2020
Connections in People Groups
Bonding Social capital: The number of connections within a group. Bridging Social Capital: The number of connections between groups. Too…
Published on 20th December, 2020
Cost of Mistrust
The decreased trust in others is both the reason to and result of decreased participation in communal activities. Without trust, we have to…
Published on 27th January, 2021
Interactive Group Effect
When individuals in a group interact, they can sometimes reach results that would not have reached them if each had acted alone. Whole is…
Published on 23rd January, 2021
Keyfabe
Portraying staged events(like wrestling) as real - including the internal politics, rivalries and relationships. Source
Published on 3rd February, 2021
Majority Illusion
Social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare. Its the local impression that a specific…
Published on 20th December, 2020
Post-truth
"Alternative facts" replace actual facts Feelings are more important than evidence.
Published on 23rd January, 2021
Social aspect of belief
There is a social aspect to belief, such that we may discount even the evidence of our own senses if we think that our beliefs are not in…
Published on 23rd January, 2021
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It asks the same questions philosophers have asked about humans(Why language? What is morality? etc…
Published on 19th April, 2021
Imagined Community
It is the idea of a community within all its members minds. Eg. Nations. Some characteristics... Limited - there are boundaries beyond which…
Published on 19th April, 2021