The Great Disruption Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

by Fukuyama, Francis

• ISBN13: 9780684865775
• ISBN10: 0684865777
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-15
• Publisher: 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