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Category: Values

  • Cultural Evolution by Ronald Inglehart

    See: Community Building Reading List Notes about Cultural Evolution by Ronald Inglehart (via Google Bard): Sure, here is a summary of Cultural Evolution by Ronald Inglehart: Cultural Evolution argues that people’s values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure. For most of history, survival was precarious, which encouraged heavy emphasis…

  • Culture is our Business by Marshall McLuhan

    See: Community Building Reading List Notes about Culture is our Business by Marshall McLuhan (via Google Bard): Sure, here is a summary of Culture is our Business by Marshall McLuhan: Culture is our Business is a book by Marshall McLuhan that explores the role of advertising in modern society. McLuhan argues that advertising is not…

  • Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Arrow

    See: Community Building Reading List Notes about Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Arrow (via Google Bard): Sure, here is a summary of Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Arrow: Social Choice and Individual Values is a book by Kenneth Arrow that examines the problem of aggregating individual preferences into a collective choice.…

  • Schwartz Values Survey

    See: How to find your core values? See: Shalom Schwartz’ Universal Values A questionnaire with 40 questions to help determine your values: https://www.idrlabs.com/human-values/test.php

  • Concept: Values

    See: List of Concepts and How to find your core values? For those familiar with our thesis, Value alignment is at the core of Community Building. But what exactly are Values? Here is some of the existing literature on Values which may enable us to come up with a framework for what Values are (a…

  • Shalom Schwartz’ Universal Values

    See: Concept: Values and Schwartz Values Survey Notes about Shalom Schwartz theory on universal Values (via Google Bard): Sure, here is a summary of Shalom Schwartz theory of universal human values: The Schwartz theory of universal human values is a useful framework for understanding the different values that people hold. It can be used to…

  • How to find your core values?

    See: Concept: Values In general, while there is some consensus on what Values are, there appears to be even lesser consensus on the best way to measure these Values. Most Value measurements then appear to be done using surveys and questionnaires. Here are some of the techniques we came across in relation to measuring Values.…

  • Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam

    See: Robert Putnam Research and Concept: Social Capital Notes about Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam (via Google Bard): Sure. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 book by Robert D. Putnam, a political scientist at Harvard University. The book argues that Americans have become increasingly isolated from one another in…

  • Community Building Reading List

    People have been thinking about the best ways to build, transform and sustain communities for a while. Some of the ones we found are: See also: Individual Authors and their books