Sentences with phrase «social glue»

And religion and elaborate group cultural rituals, like singing or dancing together, act as social glue among people in large groups.

While technology is great for networking, it lacks social glue.

Why is singing such a powerful social glue?

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

It is the social glue of our societies.

He has challenged most of the prominent modern theories of religion, including Marxism (religion is a mask for class consciousness), functionalism (religion serves as a moral restraint or social glue) and psychological reductionism (religion is a form of infantile wish fulfillment).

Primitive honor, he writes, was and is the social glue of premodern and tribal societies, wherein men are honored for bravery and women for chastity.

«By 1648,» he writes, «it had become all too clear to far too many Westerners that religion was no longer a social glue binding civilization together, but rather something corrosive and explosive which in the long run would have to be circumvented, perhaps even ignored.»

Laughter is far more general than just a response to humour: it is a social glue that we use in all sorts of ways to bind ourselves together.

They seem to treat sex as a pleasurable activity, and they rely on it as a sort of social glue, to make or break all sorts of relationships.

In the horse world, mares seem to provide the social glue to the herd — a job once attributed to stallions.

The research suggests that, despite its unpleasantness, pain may actually have positive social consequences, acting as a sort of «social glue» that fosters cohesion and solidarity within groups:

«This finding puts the «pain as social glue» hypothesis to a rigorous test, highlighting that people not only feel closer to others, but are willing to risk their own outcomes to benefit the group,» says Bastian.

And she wants to know how complex systems stay robust in the face of shocks, like the macaques with their own police force that acts as social glue.

Chit - chat and gossip, the social glue that binds people together, mean nothing to them.

Hardship is a social glue, especially in games.

Hardship is a social glue, especially in games.

All of this social glue is generated by specific circuitry in the brain: sprawling networks that monitor other people, communicate with them, feel their pain, judge their intentions, and read their emotions.

According to them, mimicry is a kind of social glue that binds people together (Chartrand et al., 2005; Lakin & Chartrand, 2003; Lakin, Jefferis, Cheng, & Chartrand, 2003).

The chameleon effect as social glue: Evidence for the evolutionary significance of nonconscious mimcry.

In contrast, marriage is often thought of as the foundation of our communities, functioning as a sort of social glue.

You may have heard oxytocin referred to as the «trust hormone», «love hormone», «cuddle hormone», «social glue» and «essence of empathy».