"И сия пучина поглотила ея"

Залезла на дискуссионные форумы на Косере, и понеслось))) Народ обсуждает, спорит, задается вопросами, я там уже навояла несколько комментов + начала новый топик.
Делаю записки для дискуссий на полях главы учебника))

Короче, чтобы это все дело не пропало, завожу новый тег и буду тут постить интересные находки, частично на английском ибо переводить влом и некогда, а оставить хочется.

ПогрузитьсяСегодняшний улов - мои мысли из дискуссии на тему возрастающего индивидуализма в традиционно коллективистских обществах:

G
I imagine our professor might ask us something like this: Are those people wealthy because they were more individualistic, or are the more individualistic because they are wealthy?
What do you think?


Я
Well, like a lot of questions/concepts in this course it seems to be chicken-and-egg, doesn't it?

But here's an interesting fact I found:
"evidence suggests that wealth reinforces Individualism. Moreover, economic development is associated with Post-materialism, that is, with a decline of the Protestant Work Ethic and utilitarian individualism and an increase in expressive individualism. <...> The classical attributes of the Protestant Work Ethic, which in previous eras characterized capitalist and modern societies, are now more typical of collective societies with greater hierarchical distance. <...> In our results, “individualist” attributes such as personal achievement, Success <...>, and competitive attitudes were more highly valued in developing countries and collectivist and hierarchical cultures than in post-materialist, developed, more egalitarian and contractual societies."
Source

A reference on Protestant Work Ethic from Wikipedia: "Hard work and frugality, as well as social success and wealth, were thought to be two important consequences of being one of the elect; thus, Protestants were thus attracted to these qualities and supposed to strive for reaching them."

SO with this in mind it seems a bit of a spiral:
- people in collectivist societies are now aspiring more to those in developed societies => imitate the values that led them to this wealth / were core to the now developed societies => become more 'traditional individualist' societies
- people in 'old' individualistic societies have made a transition from materialistic self-realisation/actualisation to spiritual/socialist(?) one, so they aim to maintain the wealth of their society and distribute it fairly now. It follows the same logic as Maslow's theory: 'Ok, I'm not dying of hunger and cold now, I can think of my soul and of helping others' => almost becoming more collectivist

What do you think?

Ах да, пока не забыла: для того, чтобы фидбек шел на пользу и мотивировал к дальнейшим успехам, он должен быть конкретным (что именно хорошо, а что надо улучшить), включать позитивные моменты и быть правдивым.