Humans are, social animals, and because of that, they need to feel accepted (apart from engineers). Acceptance is so important, that people will end up denying the reality just to “fit in” a specific group. Seems absurd right? Continue reading “Conformity”
From Leisure Class to Aspirational Class
In the previous article I presented #Universe25, an interesting experiment made in 60s on mice. Today I want to still talk about psychology, but more related to humans. For this article I got inspired by some concepts proposed in the book “The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett” which I partially revisited. Continue reading “From Leisure Class to Aspirational Class”
#Universe 25 – The fall of the Utopian dream
Today I want to write about sociology… Despite I think this field is just a bunch of gibberish, made-up so sociologist can have a job too, there is a series of experiments run in 60s by John Calhoun that are actually really interesting and worth to discuss. But lets start from the beginning…
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