![]() ![]() ![]() Our social nature even shows up in a negation. We readily understand the difference between transitive labels like "my wife's friend's son" and "my son's friend's wife, " and this relational subtlety permeates our lives. We can make refined distinctions between a corporation and a congregation, a clique and a club, a crowd and a cabal. You can see an echo of our talent for sociability in the language we have for groups like a real-world version of the mythical seventeen Eskimo words for snow, we use incredibly rich language in describing human association. We have always relied on group effort for survival even before the invention of agriculture, hunting and gathering required coordinate work and division of labor. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity. Society is not just the product of its individual members it is also the product of its constituent groups. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect. Human beings are social creatures-not occasionally or by accident but always. ![]()
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