CySociety
Social life is built from expectations, incentives and repeated forms of cooperation. CySociety invites readers to step back from individual behavior and consider the arrangements that encourage some actions while discouraging others.
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Its useful companion is a book on personal agency: one lens examines the person, the other the setting. Reading both helps avoid blaming individuals for every systemic outcome or treating systems as an excuse for every individual choice.
A question to explore before reading
What behavior does a social arrangement reward even when it claims to oppose it?
Keep this question alongside your own experience as you compare the perspectives in the library.
Explore the subject first.
These original journal essays offer a way into related questions.
Before You Share the Outrage, Ask Who Chose Its Tempo
Power in a Crisis: Resources, Institutions and the Limits of a Simple StoryA perspective for your reading
Its useful companion is a book on personal agency: one lens examines the person, the other the setting. Reading both helps avoid blaming individuals for every systemic outcome or treating systems as an excuse for every individual choice.
A question to carry into the book
Continue this line of inquiry with Authority. What supports your position when force and approval are unavailable?
Build your next reading connection
- Authority — Authority is tested when a decision meets resistance.
- MAN IN A TIME OF COLLAPSE: ABDULNASSER ALJANABI — A named life gives large historical pressures a human scale.
- SHOW ME YOUR FRIENDS AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE FUTURE — A social circle influences what feels ordinary, admirable and worth attempting.
