CANADIAN WORLDVIEWS
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Worldviews
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Agricultural Age Worldviews:
Collectivist, group identity with pepole being part of social networks and relationships; Eastern and traditional civilizations.
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Industrial Age Worldviews:
Newtonian physics: divide reality up into separate parts and analyze each part separately; individual identity; deductive, win-lose, either-or, dualistic thinking; Western civilizations.
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Information Age Worldviews:
New Physics: dynamic, interdependent, whole systems worldview; unity systems and on global local levels; win-win both-and thinking; synergy of Eastern and Western civilazations, and of individual and group needs being met; comples systems require diversity of interdependent parts.
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Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Worldviews)
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Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canadian Worldviews
- Wired. Monthly magazine with interviews and articles on cutting-edge information age issues.
- Hubbard, Barbara Marx. The Evolutionary Journey: A Personal Guide to a Psitive Future. San Francisco: Evolutionary Press, 1982.
- Forester, Tom. High-tech Society: The Story of the Information Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.
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