ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the main social analyses for everyday life, including the idiosyncratic uses of language, in both speech and thought, and has tried to show both that these require the same contextual analyses and that these need to be done in conjunction with the other social analyses. It also discusses the longer-term strategies of dealing with resources and people over a portion of one's life, and how people go about this. The chapter analyses social strategies purely in terms of economic outcomes and modeling, in terms modeled on chess strategies and moves, or on mathematical modeling. Game theory works by making some simplifying assumptions about the allocations of resources, such as only focusing on two people who are usually either friends or strangers. Pure competition contexts are ones in which if one person or community gets a resource then the other does not. The chapter discusses that non-competitive community compared to competitiveness in modernity.
