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Cultural Creatives

Cultural Creatives is a term coined by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson to describe a large segment in Western society that has recently developed beyond the standard paradigm of Modernists versus Traditionalists or Conservatists. The concept was presented in 2000 in their book The Cultural Creatives. How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (Harmony Books, NY), where they claim to have found that 50 million adult Americans (slightly over one quarter of the adult population) can now be identified as belonging to this group which has not yet found its identity but is disenchanted with materialism and hedonism. Dr Ray calls this segment New Progressives.

See also

• alternative lifestyle
• modernism and postmodernism
• post-materialism
• voluntary simplicity

Cultural Creatives - External articles references and further reading

• Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, "The Cultural Creatives". New York: Harmony Books, 2000. ISBN 0-609-60467-8.

• "Cultural Creatives". Culturalcreatives.org.
• "The Cultural Creatives Business Network: Business Networking for Cultural Creatives". Cultural-creatives.net

• Paul Ray, "The New Political Compass"
• Paul Ray, "The Rise of Integral Culture".
• Duncan Campbell, "The cultural creatives".
• Arundhati Bhanot, "Creating a new culture".

Category: Subcultures

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