The sociological distinction between subcultures and countercultures provides a vital framework for understanding modern cultural evolution. 🏛️📜

I am pleased to share an insightful new article by Dennis Joiner: "Subculture and Counterculture Explained: How Small Groups Shape Society and Identity."

Full article here:
🔗 https://www.djoinerbooks.com/subculture-and-counterculture/

#Sociology #CulturalEvolution #DennisJoiner #SocialTheory #PublicInterest #HumanAgency

Does LLM sycophancy make you a worse person?

“Study participants who received highly flattering feedback from chatbots tended to be more certain of their own correctness during social conflicts than were participants who interacted with less-affirming bots.

Compared with AI tools that were less fawning, sycophantic ones were rated as more trustworthy and more likely to be used again.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00979-x

#Science #Psychology #Sociology #LLM #AI

New in our electronic collection:

➡️ Healthy Ageing. Social, Behavioural and Design Innovations in Research

🔗 https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447375210

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #sociology #gerontology #psychology #cognition #policy #research #health

Modern systems are not collapsing — they are becoming incoherent.

The root issue:
Power without responsibility.

When ethics are removed from systems, incentives take over.

And incentives alone cannot sustain a society.

We don’t just need reform.

We need moral re-coupling.

A new essay in a new series 👉

https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/the-great-re-coupling-moral-agency

#Ethics #MoralAgency #Sociology #Philosophy #Systems #SocialImpact
#SystemsThinking #MoralAgency

Evolution of democracy

https://lemmy.world/post/44920957