The Five Stages of Civilization — Vol. II

Socio-Cultural Development

Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D.

About This Book

Volume II extends the Five-Stage model from personality development to societies and civilizations. It proposes a developmental framework for examining how prevailing emotions and adaptive behaviors become reflected in institutions, economic and political systems, leadership, justice, intergroup relations, religion, creativity, and conflict.

What You’ll Explore

An integrated model of socio-cultural development; dialectic developmental routes; prevailing emotions and adaptive behaviors; competition, cooperation, and the prisoner’s dilemma; empirical cross-cultural evidence; business and economics; domestic and international leadership and political systems; capitalism and democracy; violence, war, and nonviolence; justice; gender roles, prejudice and scapegoating; religion; artistic creativity; movies and dramas; and the movement toward a mature global community.

Who This Book Is For

For readers, scholars, educators, and students interested in applying developmental psychology to culture, institutions, political and economic systems, conflict, and global social development.