What is social phenomena?

Famous quotes containing the words social and/or phenomena:

    I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.
    John Dewey (1859–1952)

    What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer—war, and the preparations for new war.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)