Social Entrepreneur & Entrepreneurship

The young generation transitioning from the classroom ranks is continuing to show the world that they are seeking more than just money from their working years. Many of us are looking for fulfillment from our careers, and a raison d’etre that we can be proud off. These shifts are influencing the culture of new businesses, perhaps shaping them for the better.

Social entrepreneurship, as I learned recently, is a term for business with a conscience. Distinguishing itself from traditional companies, a social enterprise’s primary goal is to bring about a social benefit and an improvement to society, that results in a positive externality.

An Analysis of Friendship

The first thing that comes to mind when trying to analyse something that is intangible is ‘how’.

Like all emotions and their more complex occurrences, friendship is not only intangible, but also invisible. It is an association we learn about only indirectly through interactions between individuals. The reality is that we will never find friendship sitting alone on an empty park bench, or come across it at an abandoned school. Unlike dreams, which are visible though intangible, and which can be formed independently by the dreamer, friendship depends on our sociability to arise. So, it cannot be interpreted and analyzed like dreams have been over the years. This invisibility, characteristic of friendship, and which is a result of the social nature of the interaction, becomes not a problem however, but a way in. By focusing on the intangible and the invisible social, we begin to grasp why we are close friends with certain people and not others.