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Of course individuals need #socialempathy but if you reduce #StopHoarding *ONLY* to an issue of individual responsibility, you are missing the main problem...
We will need the meaning, connection & awareness of structure/context that a sociological imagination provides, just as much as 'nudging'. Possibly more, if we're to come through a crisis, better & more 'together' than apart... /11
#socialempathy
'Behavioural Science' is all well and good: but humans don't just 'behave'... And as we'll no doubt soon see, often they WON'T 'behave' at all. /10
#socialempathy
And we need to USE a revived #socialempathy to make things better, not to divide us or individualise us further. /9
Someone else tweeted that for many people of colour around the world, living as if it is perpetual survival and emergency is not uncommon (will reshare the original when I finish this thread) /8
#socialempathy
Many people in poverty, not online because they can't afford it, or they're about to have their electricity shut off, or - as I was reminded this morning by a friend - they're in a cash economy, can't re-join the rest of us coping online /7
#socialempathy
Many carers of small children, or disabled/sick/older relatives, will ALREADY know what it is like to be socially disconnected, stuck in the house and struggling to access services they need /6
#socialempathy
We should actively notice, and share, these experiences to IMPROVE our #socialempathy /5
But it is crucial to USE this shared 'different' experience to connect to each other and build social solidarity - not just thru conversations, but embodied understandings of how things are different for people in different places/social situations /4
#socialempathy
It would be easy to belittle people who - for example - suddenly understand why women use handcream [because they wash their hands a lot] /3
#socialempathy
I've seen a number of tweets by people experiencing for the 1st time what it is like to be someone else, & understanding their privilege /2
#socialempathy
The business of sociologists is to point out social structures/histories, meanings/significance & the social context of things. /1
#socialempathy
