09 AUG 2014 by ideonexus
Social Rules for Polite Intellectual Interactions
Another way we try to remove obstacles to learning is by having a small set of social rules. These rules are intended to be lightweight, and to make more explicit certain social norms that are normally implicit. Most of our social rules really boil down to "don't be a jerk" or "don't be annoying." Of course, almost nobody sets out to be a jerk or annoying, so telling people not to be jerks isn't a very productive strategy. That's why our social rules are designed to curtail specific behavior ...Folksonomies: professionalism etiquette
Folksonomies: professionalism etiquette
29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Social Rules that Provide for Fathers
In all human cultures there is some sort of father in the typical family, either the biological father or a male maternal relative, who acts in ways that all societies would agree are paternal.^ ^ Anthropologists suggest that biological fathers in particidar have an important parenting role in societies where family life is strong, women contribute to subsistence, the family is an integrated unit of parents and offspring working for the same goal, and men are not preoccupied with being warrio...Laws certifying marriages and punishing infidelity create a social environment where fathers can know the children they are raising are their own and provide for them.