Social Shaping Quotes

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

The force of the newspaper is the greatest force in civilization.... [Newspapers] declare wars ... make and unmake statesmen.

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.