The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.