The Capitalist Personality: Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World

by Christopher Swader

Book Overview

Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more developed societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers blame the egoism and asocial behavior found in new free-market societies on their communist pasts, this work shows how relationships are also threatened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138920673
• ISBN13: 9781138920675
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"