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:
- The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
- World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
The Value Of A Community:
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
How To Belong To A Community:
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The Politics by Aristotle
How To Belong To A Community / Fiction:
- A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
- The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- The Growing Stone by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
How A Community Changes:
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
- The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
- The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose by John Nathan
Lack Of Community:
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
Consequences Of A Community:
- Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
Consequences Of A Community / Fiction:
- Berlin by Jason Lutes
- Elektra by Jennifer Saint
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Types Of Communities:
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
- Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
- The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
- Ancient Greece: From Beginning To End by Stephan Weaver
How Culture Shapes Thought:
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
- The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
