Ranked: What Defines A Culture? How To Belong To A Community?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Defines A Culture? How To Belong To A Community?


These books try to define a what is a culture.  A culture is a community.  Books that try to provide guidance on how to belong to a community.  And the potential consequences.    


What Is Culture:
    1. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
    2. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
    3. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea

    The Value Of A Community:
    1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
    2. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
    3. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker

    The Value Of A Community / Fiction:


    How To Belong To A Community:
    1. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson
    2. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel
    3. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
    4. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
    5. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
    6. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
    7. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
    8. On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
    9. The Politics by Aristotle
    10. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
    11. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
    12. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
    13. Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
    14. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
    15. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
    16. The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom

    How To Belong To A Community / Fiction:

    Lack Of Community:
    1. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

    Consequences Of A Community:
    1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
    2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
    3. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
    4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
    5. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
    6. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
    7. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
    8. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
    9. The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
    10. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
    11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
    12. The God That Failed Edited by Richard Crossman
    13. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
    14. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
    15. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
    16. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
    17. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
    18. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
    19. Black Boy by Richard Wright
    20. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
    21. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
    22. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
    23. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
    24. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
    25. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
    26. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said

    Consequences Of A Community / Fiction:
    1. Berlin by Jason Lutes
    2. Elektra by Jennifer Saint
    3. The Stranger by Albert Camus 
    4. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
    5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


    Types Of Communities:
    1. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
    2. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
    3. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
    4. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
    5. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
    6. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
    7. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
    8. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
    9. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
    10. Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
    11. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
    12. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
    13. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
    14. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
    15. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
    16. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
    17. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
    18. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
    19. 101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory by Terry McDermott
    20. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
    21. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
    22. Man Against Himself by Karl Menninger
    23. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
    24. Ancient Greece: From Beginning To End by Stephan Weaver

    Types Of Communities: / Fiction
    1. Dubliners by James Joyce

    How Culture Shapes Thought:
    1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
    2. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
    3. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
    4. The Battle For Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life by Barry Schwartz
    5. [Upcoming] The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
    6. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
    7. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
    8. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
    9. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
    10. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge






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