The WEIRDest People within the World: How the West Grew to become Psychologically Peculiar and Notably Affluent (eBook) by Joseph Henrich $3.99
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Author Joseph Henrich
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date September 8, 2020
Print size 706 pages
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A daring, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and tradition created the peculiar Western thoughts that has profoundly formed the fashionable world.
Perhaps you’re WEIRD: raised in a society that’s Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you are slightly psychologically peculiar.
Unlike a lot of the world immediately, and most of the people who’ve ever lived, WEIRD persons are extremely individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They concentrate on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations grow to be so psychologically distinct? What function did these psychological variations play within the industrial revolution and the worldwide enlargement of Europe throughout the previous few centuries?
In The WEIRDest People within the World, Joseph Henrich attracts on cutting-edge analysis in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to discover these questions and extra. He illuminates the origins and evolution of household constructions, marriage, and faith, and the profound influence these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts by way of historical historical past and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that essentially the most elementary establishments of kinship and marriage modified dramatically below stress from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these modifications that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that might coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competitors—laying the muse for the fashionable world.
Provocative and fascinating in each its broad scope and its shocking particulars, The WEIRDest People within the World explores how tradition, establishments, and psychology form each other, and explains what this implies for each our most private sense of who we’re as people and in addition the large-scale social, political, and financial forces that drive human historical past.
Includes black-and-white illustrations.
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