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Social Structure, Infectious Diseases, Disasters, Secularism, and Cultural Change in America

Grossmann, Igor, Varnum, Michael E. W.·2015·Psychological Science
DOI 10.1177/0956797614563765
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Why do cultures change? The present work examined cultural change in eight cultural-level markers, or correlates, of individualism in the United States, all of which increased over the course of the 20th century: frequency of individualist themes in books, preference for uniqueness in baby naming, frequency of single-child relative to multichild families, frequency of single-generation relative to multigeneration households, percentage of adults and percentage of older adults living alone, small family size, and divorce rates (relative to marriage rates). We tested five key hypotheses regarding cultural change in individualism-collectivism. As predicted by previous theories, changes in socioeconomic structure, pathogen prevalence, and secularism accompanied changes in individualism averaged across all measures. The relationship with changes in individualism was less robust for urbanization. Contrary to previous theories, changes in individualism were positively (as opposed to negatively) related to the frequency of disasters. Time-lagged analyses suggested that only socioeconomic structure had a robust effect on individualism; changes in socioeconomic structure preceded changes in individualism. Implications for anthropology, psychology, and sociology are discussed.

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Authors
Grossmann, I., & Varnum, M. E. W.
Affiliations
  • University of Waterloo (CA)
  • Arizona State University (US)
Corresponding author
Grossmann, Igor
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2015-02-05
Volume
26
Issue
3
Pages
311-324
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
DOI
10.1177/0956797614563765
OpenAlex
W2073396591
Cited by
299
References
46
Citations by year
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FWCI
43.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • John Templeton Foundation
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social Sciences › Development › Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Modernity and Self-Identity
Keywords
cultural change, individualism-collectivism, individualism, socio-economic structure, pathogen prevalence, secularism, disasters, urbanization, single-child families, living alone, divorce rates, family size, baby naming, multigenerational families, United States
MeSH terms
Communicable Diseases, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Cultural Evolution, Disasters, Humans, Individuality, Social Behavior, United States, Secularism

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