The Great Disruption

Francis Fukuyama is a professor of public policy at George Mason University and the author of The End of History and the Last Man and Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. He lives in McLean, Virginia.

出版者:Simon and Schuster

作者:Francis Fukuyama

页数:372

出版时间:2000-6-15

价格:GBP 18.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780684865775

图书标签:社会资本社会学英文书籍美国社会学/人类学日本文化政治学

Over the past fifty years, the United States and other developed countries have made the transformation from industrial to information societies; knowledge has replaced mass production as the basis of wealth, power, and social interaction. At the same time, Western societies have endured increasing levels of crime, massive changes in fertility and family structure, decreasing levels of trust, and the triumph of individualism over community. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in society's moral values, a similar "Great Disruption" during the last half of the twentieth century has caused profound changes in our social structure today. Even though the once stable order of the industrial age has broken apart, a new social order is already under construction. In his masterful tour de force, Francis Fukuyama offers a surprising answer to the questions, where does social order come from? And, once lost, can it be restored? Governments and organized religion, he discovers, do not impose social order. Instead it is the natural outcome of the human biological drive to establish moral values. He shows that the Great Disruption of the 1960s and 1970s is giving way to a Great Reconstruction, as Western society weaves a new fabric of social and moral values appropriate to the changed realities of the post-industrial world.

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最近，有关美国的新闻主要有三条，一是希拉里与特普朗的总统大选电视辩论，二是美国北卡罗来纳州警察枪杀黑人事件，三是美国新泽西州列车撞车事故。 三条新闻说明了什么呢？除了美国大选，乍看给人一种“美国也乱套了”的感觉，但细想这不过是美国社会的一副常态而已。媒体历来...

The analysis on the current situation through human nature, and the singular effect of great people in the history are insightful. The first two parts of the books are worth read. This is a only book that I know for now that starts from evolutionary biology...  

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