Society

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They are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

Margaret Thatcher

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Topic

Society Family Role of government Political theory Conservatism

Speaker

Margaret Thatcher

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Thatcher, Margaret. "No Such Thing as Society." Interviewed by Douglas Keay. Woman's Own, 23 Sept. 1987.

The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways

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Topic

Society Morality Custom and convention

Author

William Graham Sumner

Source

Folkways

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 11.

I don’t tip because society says I have to.

Reservoir Dogs

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Topic

Tipping Society

Speaker

Mr. Pink

Actor

Steve Buscemi

Source

Reservoir Dogs

Genre

Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Reservoir Dogs. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Live America Inc./Dog Eat Dog Productions, 1992.

Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves.

Karl Marx

Grundrisse

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Topic

Man as social animal Interconnectedness of all people Society

Author

Karl Marx

Source

Grundrisse

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Marx, Karl. Grundisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie [Foundations of a Critique of Political Economy]. Marx–Engels Institute, 1939-1941.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl. Fundamentals of a Critique of Political Economy, translated by Martin Nicolaus. Penguin Classics, 1993.