In this landmark book, sociologist Paul H. Ray and phsychologst Sherry Ruth Anderson draw upon thirteen years of survey research studies on more th...
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Mar 02, 2009
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i think the authors missed the boat here--it's not simply that the cultural creatives are changing the world--but HOW are they co-opting power in the name of "good work". who are these cultural creatives? white, middle to upper class, vegetarian, yoga practicing, trader joes shopping, well-educated...etc., etc. (read bobos in paradise for an ironic description.) the concept that these "cultural creatives" are somehow a tiny segment of the population is absurd. i truly believe
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Sep 16, 2011
Laura
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A useful description by a sociologist and a pyschologist of the elements of our culture and the addtion of the "creatvies" to the Traditional and modern mindsets that govern the way we operate in socieity. While the book is interesting, it is also very long-winded in a '60s "Peace,man!" -which is to say,not very concrete,sort of way.
Nov 09, 2009
Faye
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Interesting cultural breakdown into Traditionals, Moderns, and Cultural Creatives. Moderns being consumer/career focused and Traditionals wanting to return to "old ways" or their perception of what use to exist. Cultural creatives look forward and are what we are evolving towards, I am there!
Jul 25, 2007
Benedict
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finally a book that describes the cultural group of people I feel at home with!
What a relief! For years I felt a sense of isolation and discomfort with my place in "Mainstream Media Soccer Mom" culture - a growing weariness about the shadowside of modernism's incessant fascination with unbridled materialism devout of spiritual meaning while simultaneously abhorring the neo-traditionalist fundamentalist longing to return to a more orderly authoritarian era that never was... More...
What a relief! For years I felt a sense of isolation and discomfort with my place in "Mainstream Media Soccer Mom" culture - a growing weariness about the shadowside of modernism's incessant fascination with unbridled materialism devout of spiritual meaning while simultaneously abhorring the neo-traditionalist fundamentalist longing to return to a more orderly authoritarian era that never was... More...
Aug 27, 2010
Joanna
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Fabulous! It's about the on-going emergence of a new subculture (1/4 of the adult population in the US) that's defined by three major values: ecological sustainability, women's rights and ways, and consciousness issues. Encouraging and inspiring, and full of stories of the revolutionary antics of individual Cultural Creatives.
May 10, 2011
Tara
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Learn about your subculture, the Cultural Creatives. I mean really learn about it. See how common our values are. It's a thick read but if you like cultural studies, you'll like this.
Jan 17, 2009
John
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Informative: on the merging of feminism, environmentalism, New Age spirituality, and a host of other movements.
Jan 24, 2009
Mary
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I'm really enjoying what I'm learning about this large and largely unknown segment of the U.S. population. As one of them it's encouraging to realize how many of us there are. It may be that the election of Barack Obama is one of the first signs of how much potential impact Cultural Creatives can have when acting in concert.
Jun 16, 2008
Katey
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I like the premise of this book, and certainly felt a fit for myself, looking at the values of the cultural creatives... I suppose I would have enjoyed a shorter treatise on this... after I while, I skimmed and selected sections rather than studiously reading the entire book. Still, it's interesting... I like how premises go "outside the box"--that's a great fit for me!
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Jul 12, 2008
Mark
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Cultural Creatives is an important idea that needs to be put right up beside Florida's Creative Class. The authors take a sociological lens, not an economic one, in understand the emerging shared values of a sociological grouping with the desire and ability to change everything.
Oct 14, 2010
LizM
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IF you are a friend of mine you are mostly likely in this demographic... and this is a great read if you want to understand a world changing co-hort - Of which you are in all likelyhood a part...
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