Feb 16, 2010 13:41
There are trends that occur in humans that seem to be hard-wired into our behavior. Things that we do on simple, fundamental levels, between just two individuals, that also occur in the exact same way on the opposite side of the spectrum; that is, between societies or countries.
Fighting, for example. Humans are incapable of getting along with one another for extended periods of time. This is true for basic interpersonal relationships, as well as on an international level.
That's just one aspect, but I get very vague, ill-defined perceptions of things that happen on micro-sociological levels that seem to repeat themselves in human behavior as a whole. As a species, we carry these trends. Maybe it's cultural.
I need to come up with an index of words that I make up, because I just came up with the term meta-cultural. And micro-sociological and macro-sociological. Maybe those are all actually real terms, but if they are, I haven't heard them, and now I've put them to my own ideas.
I would describe the phenomenon of behavior being perpetuated on a mass level as a meta-cultural phenomenon.