The Weirdest People in the World
Autor Joseph Henrichen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2021
A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020
A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020
A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.
Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you're rather psychologically peculiar.
Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves-their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations-over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries?
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition-laying the foundation for the modern world.
Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history.
Includes black-and-white illustrations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781250800077
ISBN-10: 1250800072
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 135 x 210 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan
ISBN-10: 1250800072
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 135 x 210 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan
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Notă biografică
Joseph Henrich
Recenzii
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Staggering
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detail,
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Illuminatesa journey into human nature that is more exciting, more complex and ultimately more consequentialthan has previously been suspected.
A massively ambitious work that explains the transition to the modern world ...Significantly contributes to our understanding
Engagingly written, excellently organized and meticulously argued. . . This is an extraordinarily ambitious book, along the lines of Jared Diamond'sGuns, Germs and Steel... We will all have to change our perspective.
The mostabsorbing, provocative and compellingbook I have read in a long time. Joseph Henrich's thrilling exposé of cultural variety and evolution is grounded in meticulous science, and his argumentsgo beyond the milestone of Jared Diamond'sGuns, Germs and Steel.You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values.
Phenomenal... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale.
This anthropology-meets-big-data approach is not merely innovative, but underpins a fascinating and creative book, brimming with provocative ideas.
There's nothing sofascinatingas a social anthropologist's analysis of his own tribe. Henrich shows how strange and exceptional Western society is when compared with most of the world
Henrich has thought more deeply about cultural evolution than anybody alive. His fascinating insights into just how weird people like he and I are, with our western lifestyles, and what the implications of that are for better and for worse, are a great contribution to scholarship.
Propelled by a bold vision, this landmark study is required readingfor anyone curious about the origins of modernity
Henrich and his colleagues areshaking the foundations of psychology and economics -and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behaviour and culture.
[A] sweeping and magisterial book, likely to become as foundational to cultural psychology as the WEIRD acronym [Henrich] and his colleagues coined a decade ago.
Joseph Henrich'sThe WEIRDest People in the World. . . makes for stunning reading. (It is also written with such wit and humor, and luminous clarity.) Probably an understatement to say that it is one of the most important books of the year.
One of the most interesting books I've read this year.
A brilliant performance - accessible, playful and scholarly, turning conventional history on its head and approaching it in a new way.
Illuminatesa journey into human nature that is more exciting, more complex and ultimately more consequentialthan has previously been suspected.
A massively ambitious work that explains the transition to the modern world ...Significantly contributes to our understanding
Engagingly written, excellently organized and meticulously argued. . . This is an extraordinarily ambitious book, along the lines of Jared Diamond'sGuns, Germs and Steel... We will all have to change our perspective.
The mostabsorbing, provocative and compellingbook I have read in a long time. Joseph Henrich's thrilling exposé of cultural variety and evolution is grounded in meticulous science, and his argumentsgo beyond the milestone of Jared Diamond'sGuns, Germs and Steel.You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values.
Phenomenal... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale.
This anthropology-meets-big-data approach is not merely innovative, but underpins a fascinating and creative book, brimming with provocative ideas.
There's nothing sofascinatingas a social anthropologist's analysis of his own tribe. Henrich shows how strange and exceptional Western society is when compared with most of the world
Henrich has thought more deeply about cultural evolution than anybody alive. His fascinating insights into just how weird people like he and I are, with our western lifestyles, and what the implications of that are for better and for worse, are a great contribution to scholarship.
Propelled by a bold vision, this landmark study is required readingfor anyone curious about the origins of modernity
Henrich and his colleagues areshaking the foundations of psychology and economics -and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behaviour and culture.
[A] sweeping and magisterial book, likely to become as foundational to cultural psychology as the WEIRD acronym [Henrich] and his colleagues coined a decade ago.
Joseph Henrich'sThe WEIRDest People in the World. . . makes for stunning reading. (It is also written with such wit and humor, and luminous clarity.) Probably an understatement to say that it is one of the most important books of the year.
One of the most interesting books I've read this year.
A brilliant performance - accessible, playful and scholarly, turning conventional history on its head and approaching it in a new way.