Social Factors Quotes

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

As the MP for an area like Tottenham you quickly learn that the factors leading to unemployment are as numerous as they are diverse.

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

Violent People: Are they the cause of violence or are their genes?

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I really see that socio-economic constraints and pressure contribute to our mental health in a big way. You come to realize that it's all mental health.

Genes cannot tell us how to catalogue or comprehend human diversity. Environments can, cultures can, geographies can, histories can.

There is one thing that I have learned about Economic Development—that it has to do with a lot more than economics.