The Great Disruption Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order,9780684865775

The Great Disruption Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

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ISBN13: 9780684865775
ISBN10: 0684865777
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-15
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary

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 Disruptionforges a new model for understanding the Great Reconstruction that is under way.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
PART ONE: THE GREAT DISRUPTION
Playing by the Rules
3(24)
Crime, Family, Trust: What Happened
27(34)
Causes: The Conventional Wisdom
61(16)
Causes: Demographic, Economic, and Cultural
77(15)
The Special Role of Women
92(20)
Consequences of the Great Disruption
112(15)
Was the Great Disruption Inevitable?
127(16)
PART TWO: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
Where Do Norms Come From?
143(11)
Human Nature and Social Order
154(14)
The Origins of Cooperation
168(19)
Self-Organization
187(7)
Technology, Networks, and Social Capital
194(18)
The Limits of Spontaneity and the Inevitability of Hierarchy
212(19)
Beyond Cave 76
231(18)
PART THREE: THE GREAT RECONSTRUCTION
Does Capitalism Deplete Social Capital?
249(14)
Reconstruction Past, Present, and Future
263(36)
Appendix: Additional Data and Sources
283(16)
Notes 299(30)
Bibliography 329(16)
Index 345

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