Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
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| Name: Deborah Tannen Profession: Sociologist Nationality: American Birthday: June 7, 1945 |
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Charles Horton Cooley Lewis Mumford C. Wright Mills Talcott Parsons Jane Jacobs Robert Staughton Lynd Ivan Illich Samuel P. Huntington
