Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than t… - Solomon Asch

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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

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Solomon Eliot Asch (14 September 1907 – 20 February 1996) was an American Gestalt psychologist who was a pioneer in social psychology.

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Alternative Names: Solomon Eliot Asch Solomon E. Asch Solomon Elliott Asch

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There is an inescapable moral dimensions of human existence. It follows that investigation must take account of that proposition. Yet psychologists have been among the most determined opponents of this claim, predictably in the name of what they deem to be science. They hope, at least in their technical activities, to be above the fray.

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