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The second part of the book, "The Origins of WEIRD People", provides a comparative political account of how societies have used religion to scale up from families to states. More specifically, the author draws on an array of qualitative and quantitative evidence to argue that religious beliefs, impersonal markets, urbanization, and competition among voluntary associations like guilds, charter towns, universities, and religious orders shifted people's psychology and social lives. Uniquely, the author both discusses how present-day institutions shape psychology and seat these processes in an account of the past.
The Unusual Humans In History
The second part of the book, "The Origins of WEIRD People", provides a comparative political account of how societies have used religion to scale up from families to states. More specifically, the author draws on an array of qualitative and quantitative evidence to argue that religious beliefs, impersonal markets, urbanization, and competition among voluntary associations like guilds, charter towns, universities, and religious orders shifted people's psychology and social lives. Uniquely, the author both discusses how present-day institutions shape psychology and seat these processes in an account of the past.