Talk:Social circle

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It seems that early on an anon replaced this article with his own. Here's the old one, perhaps they can be merged. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 23:49, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Social circle refers to the group of typical social positions related to a given social position, their typical social interactions and social relations. Social circle is an important factor determining what people a person in this circle will met.

People on a given social position are likely to meet people from various social contexes of their social enviroment. For example, a doctor of medicine will meet not only other doctors, but also patients, nurses, administrative staff, technical staff, etc. Thus every individual - every social position - is surrounded by a circle of other individuals - social positions - and social relations, typical to his social position (i.e. likely every doctor will meet patiens, nurses, etc. no matter his background, culture, age, etc.).

People are members of several social circles, as they usually have several social position (for example, a doctor may also be a lecturer, a father and a member of a skiing club). Each of this social circles will create some pressures and have some expectations, and they may be contradicitory (for example, spend time with patients, students, family, friends). This may lead to social conflicts.

Decide what this article is about

While I am not at all happy with the state of this article before, I reverted content that was recently added due to several factors:

• Much of it appeared to be derived from essays and included significant personal opinion.
• The sources did not actually mention social circles.
• Contributions were made by editors unfamiliar with the style guide and proper handling of references.

To resolves these issues, I suggest

• we discuss here what this article is actually about,
• new editors spend time becoming familiar with the style guide, especially how to handle capitalization and section headers and references
• new editors learn about reliable sources and how to contribute to Wikipedia.

Jojalozzo 15:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Agreed; the unreferenced part was a major problem. I notified the newest editor in question: User_talk:Rby_ruiz#Your_recent_edits. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:32, 25 November 2013 (UTC)