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Who Is He Calling WEIRD?
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History ( IF 0.553 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 , DOI: 10.1162/jinh_a_01699
Anne E. C. McCants

In The WEIRDest People in the World, Henrich offers something of a big-think, global, social-science history that covers everything from psychology experiments to anthropological narrative, economic argumentation, and kinship studies, all grounded in a purported history of religious and family law. The book seeks to persuade that the West is cognitively different from the rest of the world and that its uniqueness explains every fundamental aspect of its modern trajectory—its wealth and education distributions, the progress and spread of its innovations, the presence or absence of trust outside its local communities, its formal institutions of democratic governance, and its beliefs about fairness and equality. Even more important for historically oriented readers, the book seeks to uncover how this major cognitive development emerged. The quantitative methods that the book employs to support its sweeping claims, however, are flawed, and its version of European church- and family-law history is inconsistent with the consensus view of specialist historians.



中文翻译:

他在说谁奇怪?

世界上奇怪的人中,亨利希提供了一些宏大的、全球的、社会科学史,涵盖了从心理学实验到人类学叙事、经济论证和亲属关系研究的所有内容,所有这些都以所谓的宗教和家庭法历史为基础。这本书试图说服西方在认知上与世界其他地方不同,它的独特性解释了其现代发展轨迹的每一个基本方面——财富和教育分布、创新的进步和传播、信任的存在与否在当地社区、正式的民主治理机构以及对公平和平等的信念之外。对于以历史为导向的读者来说更重要的是,这本书试图揭示这一主要的认知发展是如何出现的。

更新日期:2021-09-12
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