Cultural evolution : people's motivations are changing, and reshaping the world /
Cultural evolution' argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure. It was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : overview of this book
- Evolutionary modernization and cultural change
- The rise of postmaterialist values in the West and the world
- Global cultural patterns
- The end of secularization?
- Cultural change, slow and fast : the distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation
- The feminization of society and declining willingness to fight for one's country : the individual-level component of the long peace
- Development and democracy
- The changing roots of happiness
- The silent revolution in reverse : the rise of Trump and the authoritarian populist parties
- The coming of artificial intelligence society.