Questions tagged [society]
A group of people sharing common culture, interests, and/or institutions. The group shares common geographic or social territory, and its members communicate with each other.
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2024 UK election: What connects the regions where Liberal Democrats succeeded?
In terms of systematic differences such as demography, what connects the regions that turned orange and what connects those that turned red, during the 2019-2024 UK election cycle?
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Has any thinker took into consideration Governmental Sphere next to Public Sphere and Private Sphere?
It seems to me that there is, at least in some societies, a sphere which is not private, and yet not public per se. That is the sphere where the government governs even against the public opinions. ...
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Do chemical-biological problems benefit capitalism?
Mark Fisher, in his book Capitalist Realism, writes:
The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of ...
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Could free speech be absolute? [closed]
Since the past few days, I have been spending some time on X (Formerly Twitter). I saw people being openly racist and calling it their "right to free speech". I personally don't give much ...
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What are the stances of different political parties about Gentrification? [closed]
One of the thing I notice all the time; is that every political parties bring policies or actions that create massive planned or unplanned urbanization (people often don't want that). As a result, the ...
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Is there any correlation between energy consumption and scientific progress? [closed]
I was just thinking of an unconventional argument that if (hypothetically) cutting carbon emissions could slow down an economy if it meant there was less access to energy and hence less general ...
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Are Americans more critical of their own country as compared to other countries with similar levels of development?
Basically, I’ve just lately been thinking about how it appears to be extremely common to hear people fault U.S. society in various ways, like income inequality, lack of universal healthcare and other ...
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What it the logic behind prisons' spatial distribution around the world?
I have created a project which shows the distribution of prisons globally. There is likely a rationale behind this distribution.
For instance, why does Switzerland have small prisons while France has ...
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Are there any mass primitivist societies (i.e. population over a thousand people) that currently exist?
I know there are small communes and primitivist societies out there, but are there any primitivist societies in the modern world with a population of over one thousand people? Large uncontacted tribes ...
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Is political correctedness meant to reduce offence or to let people perceive a rosier reality? [closed]
This question reminded me the controversy about the usage of the "Master/Slave" terminology. According to an answer posted to the question that terminology is being replaced by less ...
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Is China suffering increased crime levels or reduced GDP growth from having 17% more men than women in the 15-24 age bracket?
It’s often claimed (for example in What purpose do anti-Polygamy laws serve?) that young men who can’t find a woman will instead engage in violence and other types of anti social behavior.
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Is OpenAI Anglo-Saxon propaganda? [closed]
I use OpenAI (mainly known for ChatGPT) and I like the ease of retrieving information without using Google (to skip ads and cookie consent banners).
But today I noticed something strange: I just read ...
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What are the core universal differences between young and old people's political attitudes?
The global surveys support the intuition that young people are socially liberal, perhaps because of their higher openness to experience. However other trends seem harder to generalize.
Although the ...
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Why are there so many adults in the US who cannot read?
I have heard about it being a problem, then googled the subject and was surprised to see the number of adults in the US who cannot read, according to this PBS story, is 36 million.
Why are there so ...
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Is there any theory regarding a colony's natural evolution into independence?
From a layman's perspective, it seems that the fate of most colonies is to evolve into an independent nation. At least those colonies that are, at a particular point in human technological evolution, ...
