Links tagged with “society”
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The Great Dispersion | No Mercy / No Malice
On how working from home, and not going out as much, will prevent us from mixing with people who aren’t like us, and so decrease empathy.
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The Dangers of Elite Projection - Human Transit
A useful term. (via several people on Twitter)
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Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain (Oct 2011) | The Young Foundation
The Young Foundation’s report, an interesting read. Free PDF.
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Rude Britannia is a myth, says report into English manners | Society | The Observer
“While people care more deeply about bad manners and unkindness from strangers than they do about crime … they are often unaware of how their own behaviour might offend.” The report isn’t yet on the Young Foundation’s site,
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Britain’s “broken society”: Through a glass darkly | The Economist
Good article on how many things that you’d think would define “broken Britain” have been improving. Britain’s better.
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)
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Amazon.com: “Revolutions and State Collapse”
I love this Listmania list, especially the first part of it with comments. Saw it ages ago but didn’t save it at the time.
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Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter
Book mentioned by Matt Webb in his New Puritans piece.