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

Subculture and Counterculture Explained: How Small Groups Shape Society and Identity

Understand subculture and counterculture with simple examples, key differences, and real-life insights on how these groups shape identity and society.

Dennis Joiner

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

Chats with sycophantic AI make you less kind to others

Even people who were sceptical of chatbots’ utility fell under the sway of the AI tools’ flattery.

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

1,000-year-old altar and human sacrifices from Toltec Empire discovered in #Mexico 🇲🇽. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology

1,000-year-old altar and human...
1,000-year-old altar and human sacrifices from Toltec Empire discovered in Mexico

Archaeologists found the altar and human bones during a construction project near Tula, an ancient city that was the capital of the pre-Hispanic Toltec Empire.

Live Science
PostDoc mit eigenständiger Forschung zu Bildungsgleichheit, Familie und Lebensverlauf - Universität Bern

Universität Bern sucht PostDoc mit eigenständiger Forschung zu Bildungsgleichheit, Familie und Lebensverlauf

I am not even beginning to bridge from listening to understanding. This is precisely the operation that I find undertheorized in qualitative empirical research such as #anthropology & #sociology. In conversation analysis it is often intentionally bracketed out. You either have meaning or structure.
The Longest March in English History Never Happened — King Harold Likely Sailed to the Battle of Hastings. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology

The Longest March in English H...
Ancient DNA Reveals How Farming Spread in the Southern Andes of #Argentina 🇦🇷. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #Agriculture 🧑‍🌾 #Farming 🚜 #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-dna-...

Ancient DNA Reveals How Farmin...