Society and Culture
Articles and Readings

Compiled by: W. Huitt
Last Revised: April 2014

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I.  Introduction

• Huitt, W. (2007). Success in the conceptual age: Another paradigm shift. Paper presented at the 32^nd Annual Meeting of the Georgia Educational Research Association, October 26. Retrieved September 2007, from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/papers/conceptual-age.pdf
• Huitt, W. (2012). Citizenship. Educational Psychology Interactive. Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State University. Retrieved August 2012,  from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/citizen/index.html
• Pink, D. (2005, May). Why the world is flat. Wired Magazine. Retrieved August 2005, from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/friedman.html
• Whitney-Smith, E. (2009). Winning information revolutions: From the Ice Age to the Internet. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved May 2011, from http://information-revolutions.com/

II.  Human Nature

III. Human Rights

• Penn, M., & Malik, A. (2010). The protection and development of the human spirit: An expanded focus on human rights discourse. Human Rights Quarterly, 32(3), 665-688. Retrieved from http://authenticityinstitutedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/penn-malik-the-protection-and-development-of-the-human-spirit1.pdf

IV. Economics, Finances, and Material Wealth

• Berg, M., & Veehoven, R. (2010). Income inequality and happiness. In BentGreve (Ed.), Social policy and happiness in Europe. Edgar Elgar. Retrieved February 2010, from http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/Pub2010s/2010b-full.pdf
• Council for Economic Education. (2013). National standards for financial literacy. New York, NY: Author. Retrieved May 2013, from http://www.councilforeconed.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/national-standards-for-financial-literacy.pdf
• Gaouette, N. (2012, December 2012). U.S. intelligence agencies see a different world in 2030. Bloomberg. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/u-s-intelligence-agencies-see-a-different-world-in-2030.html
• Maryland State Board of Education. (2010). The Maryland state curriculum for personal financial literacy education. Baltimore, MD: Author. Retrieved May 2013, from http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/financial_literacy/financialLiteracy_STANDARDS.pdf
• New Economics Foundation, The. (2009). The unHappy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don't have to cost the earth. London: Author. Retrieved July 2009, from http://www.happyplanetindex.org/public-data/files/happy-planet-index-2-0.pdf
• O'Driscoll, G., Jr., Holmes, K., & Kirkpatrick, M. (2000, November 1). Who's free, who's not: The difference between prosperity and poverty is liberty. OpinionJournal, The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 2000, from http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=65000519
• Royal Government of Bhutan. (2012). Defining a new economic paradigm: The report of the high-level meeting on wellbeing and happiness. New York, NY: The Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations. Thimphu: Office of the Prime Minister. Retrieved June 2012, from http://www.uncsd2012.org/content/documents/519BhutanReport_WEB_F.pdf
• Sahlberg, P. (2010). Pedagogy for economic competitiveness and sustainable development. European Journal of Education, 45(2), 280-299. Retrieved June 2013, from http://pasisahlberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/EJE-Pedagogy-for-competitiveness-2010.pdf
• Sullivan, J. (2001). Democracy, governance and the market. Washington, DC: Center for International Private Enterprise. Retrieved May 2002, fromhttp://www.cipe.org/fs/articles/democracymarkets.php3
• Thaler, R., & Mullainathan, S. (2008). Behavior economics. In D. Henderson (Ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Indianapolis, IN: Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved December 2009, from http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/BehavioralEconomics.html
Aguirre, D., Hoteit, L., & Sabbagh, K. (2012, October 15). How to keep the promise of the third billion. strategy+business. Retrieved October 2012, from http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00137?pg=all&tid=27782251
• Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2011, October 24). Why the massive wealth of the 1% could ruin the economy. The Atlantic. Retrieved April 2013,http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/why-the-massive-wealth-of-the-1-could-ruin-the-economy/247277/
• Carlson, C., Derry, S., Fouad, N., Jacobs, J., Krieg, F., Peterson, N. (1999). Report of the school-to-work task force: How psychology can contribute to the school-to-work opportunities movement. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Retrieved December 2002, from http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/school/page1a.html
• Dent, H. S., Jr. (2004). Using demographics to predict economic trends: Key concepts. Allen, TX: H. S. Dent Foundation. Retrieved October 2004, from http://www.hsdent.com/home.cfm?NF=1&CFID=80235&CFTOKEN=43696219
• Gornick, J., & Meyers, M. (2001). Building the dual earner/dual career society: Policy developments in Europe. Working paper No. 82. Prepared for Rethinking Social Protection Conference, January 26-28, 2001, Harvard University Center for European Studies, Cambridge MA. Retrieved August 2003, fromhttp://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/working_papers/GornickMeyers.pdf
• Harré, M. & Harré, F. (2001). You can have the career of your dreams. Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Thinking, Auckland, New Zealand, January. Retrieved December 2002, from http://www.breakthroughs.co.nz/bt/Harre.pdf
• Huitt, W. (1998). The workplace and the transition to the information age: How it impacts and is impacted by women. Paper presented at the Third Annual Women's Studies Conference, Valdosta, Georgia, March 5-7. Retrieved April 1998, from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/papers/wmnwork.html
• Malloch, T. (2003). Social, human, and spiritual capital in economic development. Bryn Mawr, PA: Metanexus Institute. Retrieved July 2008, from http://www.metanexus.net/spiritual_capital/pdf/malloch.pdf
• Maymin, S. (2007). Using your strengths in the job search. Advising & Coaching. Stanford, CA: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved July, 2007, fromhttps://alumni.gsb.stanford.edu/career/senia.html
• Moss, P. (2000). Workforce issues in early childhood education and care. Paper prepared for consultative meeting on International Developments in Early Childhood Education and Care, The Institute for Child and Family Policy, Columbia University, NY, May 11-12. Retrieved August 2003, from http://www.childpolicy.org/moss.pdf
• Myers, D. (2000). Wealth, well-being, and the new American dream. Retrieved May 2003, from The Center for a New American Dream,http://www.newdream.org/discuss/myers.html
• Piirto, J. (2000). The Piirto pyramid of talent development. Gifted Child Today Magazine. Retrieved April 2003, fromhttp://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0HRV/6_23/68146800/p1/article.jhtml?term=conation+volition
• Prestowitz, C. (2005, April 20). Three billion new capitalists. Debating India. Retrieved August 2005, from http://india.eu.org/2395.html
• Ridley, M. (2010, July). Ideas having sex: How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith. Reason. Retrieved March 2011, from http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/14/ideas-having-sex
• Tyson, L. D. (2011, July 29). Jobs deficit, investment deficit, fiscal deficit. The New York Times. Retrieved December 2011, fromhttp://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/jobs-deficit-investment-deficit-fiscal-deficit/
• Sardello, R. (2000). Spiritual psychology of work. Greensboro, NC: The School of Spiritual Psychology. Retrieved December 2002, fromhttp://www.spiritualschool.org/articles_work.htm
• Van Horn, C. (2006). Mega-trends in the American workforce. Presentation at the Academy of Human Resource Development Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, February 24. Retrieved August 2006, from  http://www.ahrd.org/EVENTS/Conference2006/VanHornSpeech.pdf

V. Governance

VI. Gender Issues

•  Anderson, J. (2001, January 25). Women and human development: The capabilities approach (Book Review). Education Review (115). Retrieved May 2002, from http://coe.asu.edu/edrev/reviews/rev105.htm
• Mitnick, D. H. (2007). The impact of working women on work/life balance perspectives [Thesis]. Philadelphia: Program of Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved September 2010, from http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=od_theses_msod
• Woodman, M. (1989). The role of the feminine in the new era. Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 2(1). Retrieved December 2013, from http://bahai-library.com/woodman_role_feminine_era

VII. Race and Ethnicity Issues

• Same Yet Different, The: Creating Unity Among the Diverse Members of the Bahá’í Faith, by Deborah Clark Vance, in Journal of Intergroup Relations (a publication of the National Association of Human Rights Workers), Volume 29:4 (2002)

VIII. Peace and Conflict Resolution

IX. Environment and Ecology

• Hance, J. (2012). Arctic warms to highest level as researchers fear tipping points. Mongabay. Retrieved February 2012, from http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0213-hance_arctic_tippingpoints.html
Sahtouris, E. (1998). The biology of globalization. Adapted from first publication in Perspectives in Business and Social Change, September 1997. Retrieved December 1999, from http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/globalize.html
• Sahtouris, E. (2000). Living systems, the internet and the human future. Talk presented at Planetwork, Global Ecology and Information Technology a conference held at the San Francisco Presidio, May 13. Retrieved December 2000, from http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/LSinetHF.html
• Stewart, J. (2008). The evolutionary manifesto: Our role in the future evolution of life. Brussels: The Free University of Brussels. Retrieved May 2011, from http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/man.pdf

X. The Future

• Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2011, October 26). Why workers are losing the war against machines. The Atlantic. Retrieved April 2013, fromhttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/why-workers-are-losing-the-war-against-machines/247278/
• Law, D., & Versteeg, M. (2011). The evolution and ideology of global constitutionalism. California Law Review, 99, 1163-1254. Retrieved June 2012, fromhttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1643628
• McGrew, T. (2000). Transnational democracy: Theories and prospects. Global Transformations. Cambridge and Oxford, UK. Retrieved August 2010, fromhttp://www.polity.co.uk/global/transnational-democracy-theories-and-prospects.asp
• National Intelligence Council. (2004). Mapping the global future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 project. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved December 2005, from http://www.futurebrief.com/project2020.pdf
• Sahtouris, E. (1998). The biology of globalization. Adapted from first publication in Perspectives in Business and Social Change, September 1997. Retrieved December 1999, from http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/globalize.html
• Smith, M., & Doyle M. (2013) Globalization: Theory and experience. (Revised). encyclopedia of informal education. Retrieved October 2013, from http://www.infed.org/biblio/globalization.htm
• Roco, M., & Bainbridge, W. (Eds.). (2003). Converging technologies for improving human performance: Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. Berkley, CA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Retrieved December 2006, from http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/1/NBIC_report.pdf
• United Nations. (2004). World population to 2300. New York: Author, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved December 2006, from http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf
• United Nations. (2009). Population aging and development. New York: Author, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved December 2010, from http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/ageing/ageing2009chart.pdf
• Wiener, J., & Tilly, J. (2002). Population ageing in the United States of America: Implications for public programs. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31, 776-781. Retrieved December 2005, from http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/4/776.full.pdf 

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