Streetwise

Shrewdness is originally a redensartliche paraphrase the fact that school little educated persons ' in the country ' quite effective ruse to connect secrecy and far-sighted planning - when as in a land transaction the farmer the teacher or at a land consolidation process in lays the administrative officials.

Here the cliché comes to light, usually rather be urbanites pragmatic calculation capable. From the standpoint of some sociologists come here but similar social skills only in different patterns ( patterns ) for supporting that Ferdinand Tönnies as "Community " ( Rurale ) versus " social " ( urban ) describes mentalities (see community and society ).

Most often the term, shrewdness is ' negative connotations, especially when it means the ability to virtue -planned action to enforce its goals. He rarely is similar to that worldly wisdom ', also used as to emphasize that education and intelligence do not necessarily coincide. It is crucial that 'intelligence' instrumental reason thinks that is solely interested in such knowledge, from which can be possible immediately draw some benefit. The uses of the term differ only in terms of connotation.

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