The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World

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Harmony Books, 2000 - 370 páginas
Are You a Cultural Creative?
Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and "making it," on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher taxes or prices to clean it up and to stop global warming? Are you unhappy with both the left and the right in politics and want to find a new way that does not simply steer a middle course?
In this landmark book, sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson draw upon thirteen years of survey research studies on more than 100,000 Americans, plus more than 100 focus groups and dozens of in-depth interviews. They reveal who the Cultural Creatives are and the fascinating story of their emergence over the last generation, using vivid examples and engaging personal stories to describe their distinctive values and lifestyles.
The Cultural Creatives care deeply about ecology and saving the planet, about relationships, peace, and social justice, about self-actualization, spirituality, and self-expression. Surprisingly, they are both inner-directed and socially concerned; they're activists, volunteers, and contributors to good causes more often than other Americans. But because they've been so invisible, they are astonished to find out how many others share both their values and their way of life. Once they realize their numbers, their impact on America promises to be enormous, shaping a new agenda for the twenty-first century.
What makes the appearance of the Cultural Creatives especially timely is that our civilization is in the midst of an epochal change, caught between globalization, accelerating technologies, and adeteriorating planetary ecology. A creative minority can have enormous leverage to carry us into a new renaissance instead of a disastrous fall. The book ends with a number of maps for the remarkable journey that our civilization is embarked upon: initiations, evolutionary models, scenarios, and the elements of a new mythos for our time. The Cultural Creatives offers a more hopeful future and prepares us all for a transition to a new, saner, and wiser culture.

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chapter one who are the cultural creatives?
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chapter two becoming a cultural creative
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chapter three the three americas
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Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., is executive vice president of American LIVES, Inc., a market research & opinion polling firm specializing in the lifestyles & values of Americans. He has headed more than 100 major research & consulting projects, & has been published numerous times in the "Noetic Sciences Review" & "American Demographics." He lives in Marin County, California. Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice. She is coauthor of "The Feminine Face of God." She lives in Marin County, California.

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