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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 May 2026
- ISBN 9781009732277
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages70 pages
- Weight 117 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Our future will be written not by states or empires, but by small, creative, purposeful groups.
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This Element explores the evolutionary role of small groups as key actors in shaping human adaptability, resilience, and societal development. Drawing on cultural evolutionary theory and interdisciplinary scholarship, it illuminates the world-making and transformative capacities of small groups as primary agents of cooperative communication, cultural innovation, and transmission. Through historical and contemporary case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, it examines how small groups function both as catalysts for moral imagination, cooperation, and democratic renewal, and as drivers of destructive ideologies and social disintegration. The study also reassesses the relevance of evolutionary insights for addressing the major crises of the twenty-first century. By critically engaging with foundational thinkers and ongoing debates on democratic and institutional innovation, this Element offers insights for scholars, policymakers, and civic actors committed to empowering communities and countering authoritarian regression.
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1. Introduction: making sense of small groups as drivers of cultural evolution; 2. From Alexis de Tocqueville to Robert Putnam: theories of small groups in the social sciences; 3. Unfreezing the past: evolutionary perspectives on small groups; 4. Small integrative groups as catalysts of emancipative transitions; 5. Malignant palingenesis: small disintegrative groups as drivers of evolutionary regressions; 6. The power of the powerless: small groups in the age of polycrisis; 7. Toward a prosocial future: policy implications and research vistas; References.
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