Social Skills Social skills include simple things, such as stopping every three sentences in a conversation and waiting for the other person to talk, or never being the first to speak in any group.  Social skills also include understanding the role of class and strata as how they affect how others treat you and how they affect your ability to help others.

Without that kind of knowledge (without understanding class and strata) you would not know why microloans work and why microgrants are guaranteed to fail, why in some groups a business loan will be repaid promptly but a personal loan never will be considered for repayment.

Libraries are your friend.  Especially for casual reading.  To gain and improve social skills, I would suggest:
 

• Elgin's Gentle Art Books [her non-fiction, though many of her fiction novels are considered feminist classics].
• Ms. Manners [Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Freshly Updated]
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty
• Live for Success [Molloy's Live for Success]
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Class: A Guide Through the American Status System [realize that the author is as much snark as he is descriptive]

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