Self-sacrifice to self-interest

Just how did we get to be this selfish?

September 1, 2006 | by Kate Fraher , Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Statistics Canada. (2004). Canada e-Book. Retrieved from
    http://142.206.72.67/02/02d/02d_001c_e.htm
  2. Ibid.
  3. Social Scholar Barbara Dafoe Whitehead links family breakdown to expressive individualism. See Whitehead, B.D. (1996). The divorce culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. On the effects of expressive individualism see Bellah, R.N., et al. (1996). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. Meyers, D.G. (2000). The American paradox: Spiritual hunger in an age of plenty. New Haven: Yale University Press. Yankelovich, D. (1998). How American individualism is evolving. The Public Perspective, 9(2), 3-6.
  4. Bellah et al. (1985). As cited in Scott, J. (1997). Changing households in Britain: Do families still matter? The Sociological Review, 45(4), 591-620.
  5. Whitehead, B.D. (1996). The divorce culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.