'social cycle' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use the phrase to describe the traditional cycle of family and community life, or the dynamic of interactions between individuals or groups. For example, "The social cycle of small rural towns has been disrupted by the technological advances of the modern world."
Remarkably, young bees that experienced conflicting photic and social environmental cycles showed a phase that was more similar to the social cycle, indicating that in honeybees social entrainment can override potent photic entrainment.
Finally, we show that young nest bees that experience conflicting social and LD cycles maintain the phase of the social cycle when removed from the hive and monitored individually in constant laboratory conditions.
And what accounts for the resurgence in commemorating the events of 60 years ago is arguably just part of a traditional social cycle: as a generation comes to the end of its natural life, its members are rightly keen to tell their stories and understand their place within history.
"We were part of the first in mobile social cycle in Berlin along with Moped and Gidsy," Petersen told me in an exclusive interview.
That's not what we expect or want, especially in our current social cycle, when we want to be coaxed rather than preached to.
Karlin's work emerged at the tail end of the last such social cycle -- the "We" cycle we're in now -- and at the beginning of the "Me" cycle, when people are generally more swayed by hype, hipsters and hucksters.
Young nest bees that experienced conflicing cycles of LD illumination and colony foraging activity cycles showed a phase that is more similar to foragers than to bees of a similar age that experienced the LD but not the social cycles (Fig. 5 and Supplementary Fig. 5).
Linda Stone, a former vice president at Microsoft and veteran of many TED conferences, had a less lofty prediction: "For the last 20 years, we had an ideal that was all about having these exciting virtual connections that enhanced our productivity, our connectivity, our opportunity," said Ms. Stone, who is working on a book about how social cycles affect business.
Even shifting social cycles can't change that.
We don't believe you can predict politics, and that the swings of social cycles can't affect politics.
Yet as we know from the life of social cycles, real change occurs when the "anomalies" -- another word for the change agents -- become too numerous to be absorbed into the incumbent system.
