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Large-scale societal changes and intentionality – an uneasy marriage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2014
Abstract
Our commentary focuses on juxtaposing the proposed science of intentional change with facts and concepts pertaining to the level of large populations or changes on a worldwide scale. Although we find a unified evolutionary theory promising, we think that long-term and large-scale, scientifically guided – that is, intentional – social change is not only impossible, but also undesirable.
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Large-scale societal changes and intentionality – an uneasy marriage
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