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Shaker, Paul – Education Canada, 2009
In this article, the author discusses the educational and societal differences between Canada and the United States. He claims that an egocentric culture, committed to immediate gratification, stands in the way of a healthy response to change. People are always seeking accommodation to the changes around them. When people choose familiar behaviour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delay of Gratification, Psychological Patterns, Social Change
Shaker, Paul – 1982
This paper argues that the emerging discipline of sociobiology has the potential of doing what epistemologists, developmental psychologists, psychoanalysts, and ethologists have been unable to do: to provide a theory documenting our inherited dispositions as reflected in cultural evolution and personal development. Accordingly, the paper begins…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology