Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji
Excerpts from an address to the Commonwealth Workshop in Nadi, 29 August 2005
Audio lectures, The Law of Divorce (n.d.)
Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji
Excerpts from an address to the Commonwealth Workshop in Nadi, 29 August 2005
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
“The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.”
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Dissenting, Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388, 406 (1960)
Judicial opinions
Dana Arnold (1961) Middlessex uni prof
Source: Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 4 : A class performance : Social histories of architecture
Fritz Roethlisberger (1898–1974) American business theorist
Cited in: Lyndall Fownes Urwick, Edward Franz Leopold Brech (1961), The Making of Scientific Management: The Hawthorne investigations https://archive.org/stream/makingofscientif032926mbp#page/n191/mode/2up. p. 166-167 <br class="br">Management and the worker, 1939
Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 198
Robert Trivers (1943) American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist
As quoted in Science at the Edge: Conversations with the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today (2008), p. 170
Context: People are often unconscious of some of the mechanisms that naturally occur in them in a biased way. For example, if I do something that is beneficial to you or to others, I will use the active voice: I did this, I did that, then benefits rained down on you. But if I did something that harmed others, I unconsciously switch to a passive voice: this happened, then that happened, then unfortunately you suffered these costs. One example I always loved was a man in San Francisco who ran into a telephone pole with his car, and he described it to the police as, "the pole was approaching my car, I attempted to swerve out-of-the-way, when it struck me."
Let me give you another, the way in which group membership can entrain language-usages that are self-deceptive. You can divide people into in-groups or out-groups, or use naturally occurring in-groups and out-groups, and if someone's a member of your in-group and they do something nice, you give a general description of it – "he's a generous person". If they do something negative, you state a particular fact: "in this case he misled me", or something like that. But it's exactly the other way around for an out-group member. If an out-group member does something nice, you give a specific description of it: "she gave me directions to where I wanted to go". But if she does something negative, you say, "she's a selfish person". So these kinds of manipulations of reality are occurring largely unconsciously.