"Social intercourse" refers to the interactions and communication between people in a social setting. It typically involves conversations, sharing thoughts, and connecting with others in order to build relationships and understand each other better.
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Can you imagine a world in which the definition of every object or point of discussion had to be clarified before moving forward
with social intercourse?
But even from the director of The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, and Silence, this film stands out for its grace and nuance in its portrait
of social intercourse as formal ritual.
And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in
daily social intercourse.
And that is why the conservative, pre - or post-modern, is so solicitous of them, for he / she knows that civility is what keeps the wheels of
social intercourse rolling.
Generations of common schooling, shared economic and patriotic interests and
increasing social intercourse suggested that the old dividing line between «natives,» meaning the Yankee Protestants, and everybody else was vanishing.
Such alcoholics are the most difficult to recognize simply because alcohol has not cut them off from
normal social intercourse, even though it is giving them trouble.
For example, for certain persons in certain situations solitude is an intrinsic good, while for other persons in the same
situation social intercourse would be intrinsically good.
«Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols
of social intercourse,» Kalervo Oberg, the Canadian anthropologist who first coined the term almost a half - century ago, once said in a talk.
When the post-modernist argues that justice is a game we play; a set of rules two or more people agree upon as the frame within which to carry on
their social intercourse (see, for instance, JG), the discussion shifts from a celebration of various uniqueness to the difficult question of how they interact.
I have no choice but to list my email address at my university, at pain of not knowing of upcoming lectures (thus sacrificing my intellectual well - being), or of department meetings (thus relinquishing my civic rights), or of social events (thus forgoing
all social intercourse).
The factor in human social experience which Whitehead identifies as responsible for generating this correlative kind of «continuity» is routine, namely, the repetitive activity of daily
social intercourse.
He gains empirical support for this judgment both from «peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary
social intercourse.»
We considered first the residue of power in words in
all social intercourse in spite of the abuse and degeneration of language.
At this point Whitehead produces his oft - cited statement about empirical support «both from the evidence for peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary
social intercourse» (PR 469).
Finally, by means of past experiences and unconscious memories «the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary
social intercourse» to which Whitehead also appeals is explicable without reference to unmediated feelings.
Like Einstein, Gödel found ordinary
social intercourse an immense chore.
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social intercourse.»
«Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and
social intercourse.»
Trade shows are great watering holes of business /
social intercourse.
Performance artist Marina Abramovic may seem to have cornered the market on using awkwardness and uncomfortable situations as raw material to create art, but Prvacki (pronounced «Pri - vatch - key») is an expert at discussing difficult social interactions in her work, and may even help viewers find a smoother path through the tangle of
social intercourse.
The density of population necessary to enable mankind to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of cooperation and of
social intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries, been attained.