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Sep 8, 2020 · “The WEIRDest People in the World” will undoubtedly and deservedly become a classic in sociology, despite the fact that Henrichs’ thesis per se is not particularly new.
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May 27, 2021 · Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, 704 pp., $35. ISBN: 9780374173227 (Hardb...
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"The Weirdest People in the World is a novel and fascinating look at our democratic western societies. The book presents a wealth of evidence that cultural learning and specific cultural rules of kinship relations generated the psychological foundations underlying the economic success of “the West”.
Sep 12, 2020 · In his groundbreaking new book, “The WEIRDest People in the World,” the anthropologist Joseph Henrich argues that people from Western countries have a unique psychology.
To explain these patterns, I’ll first show how the most fundamental of human institutions—those governing marriage and the family—influence our motivations, perceptions, intuitions and emotions. Then, to explain the peculiar trajectory of European societies over the last two millennium, I lay out how one particular branch of Christianity ...
The WEIRDest People in the World is a big book in multiple respects. It runs for more than 600 pages, covers the history of Europe for more than a millennium, and offers an interdisciplinary theory of social change that is vast in scope. There are, no doubt, many
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Sep 6, 2020 · Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?
