Social Dynamics
Mar. 7th, 2006 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbsegalA few days ago a friend posted the following thoughts on social dynamics. Thoughts?
# In social groups, people ‘talk behind your back’ because news needs to travel and people can’t be expected to wait until your front is present.
# In social groups, people ‘talk behind your back’ because the group needs to figure out what it thinks about people, events, and situations. Groups don’t have the luxury of doing their thinking internally, inside one mind. If you provide stimuli to the group, it needs to determine how to react to that stimuli.
I've been having a hard time putting my reactions in to words, other than that I'm attracted by these ideas, but that I know they're not the only reasons.
# In social groups, people ‘talk behind your back’ because news needs to travel and people can’t be expected to wait until your front is present.
# In social groups, people ‘talk behind your back’ because the group needs to figure out what it thinks about people, events, and situations. Groups don’t have the luxury of doing their thinking internally, inside one mind. If you provide stimuli to the group, it needs to determine how to react to that stimuli.
I've been having a hard time putting my reactions in to words, other than that I'm attracted by these ideas, but that I know they're not the only reasons.
