The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

ISBN-13: 9780684865775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str.

Francis Fukuyama

Opis

In the past thirty years, the United States has undergone a profound transformation in its social structure: Crime has increased, trust has declined, families have broken down, and individualism has triumphed over community. Has the Great Disruption of recent decades rent the fabric of American society irreparably? In this brilliant and sweeping work of social, economic, and moral analysis, Francis Fukuyama shows that even as the old order has broken apart, a new social order is already taking its place. The Great Disruption forges a new model for understanding the Great Reconstruction that is under way.

Recenzje

Virginia Postrel Los Angeles Times Innovative...engaging....Fukuyama provides a lucid course in "one of the most important intellectual developments of the late twentieth century."

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part ONE: The Great Disruption

1. Playing by the Rules

2. Crime, Family, Trust: What Happened

3. Causes: The Conventional Wisdom

4. Causes: Demographic, Economic, and Cultural

5. The Special Role of Women

6. Consequences of the Great Disruption

7. Was the Great Disruption Inevitable?

Part TWO: On the Genealogy of Morals

8. Where Do Norms Come From?

9. Human Nature and Social Order

10. The Origins of Cooperation

11. Self-Organization

12. Technology, Networks, and Social Capital

13. The Limits of Spontaneity and the Inevitability of Hierarchy

14. Beyond Cave 76

Part THREE: the great reconstruction

15. Does Capitalism Deplete Social Capital?

16. Reconstructions Past, Present, and Future

Appendix: Additional Data and Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Mosbacher DIrector of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written about questions concerning governance, democratization, and international political economy. His book The End of History and the Last Man has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.