What does one retreat and two resistance mean?

The so-called "three steps forward, two steps back" also refers to a skill in how a person formulates words in social activities.

The boundaries between social activities and non-social activities are sometimes not easy to determine, because in real life, people's natural attributes and social attributes cannot be completely separated. Human activities that satisfy basic physiological needs such as clothing, food, shelter, rest, and sexual desire appear as instinctive behaviors in some aspects. When this kind of behavior is carried out according to a certain cultural pattern, it will have the nature of social activities.

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Meaningful behavior of an individual or group directed toward others and aimed at achieving a desired goal. Including all social interactions, it is a role-playing process that meets social expectations. Social activities and social behavior are common in many ways.

However, social psychology often uses the concept of social behavior to study the social activities of individuals and small groups. It does not involve large-scale social organizational actions to distinguish it from social activities.

German sociologist M. Weber was the first to use the concept of social activities in a sociological sense and tried to reveal its essence and nature. He divided social activities into four types: value-rational type, purpose-rational type, traditional type and emotional type.

He believes that activities with rational purpose represent the highest level of rationality because it embodies the optimal configuration of goals, means and results, and is a type of social activity linked to the reality of capitalist society.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Social Activities