To Change the World

By James Davison Hunter
(2002)

Group Discussion Guide: PDF Download, 96K

Renowned scholar on social change, James Davison Hunter, dissects the prevailing attitudes toward culture that actually limit effective change.

What does it take to change the world? Dr. Hunter argues that lasting cultural transformation comes not from the majority, but from the few but powerful who have the opportunity to influence society through their relationships and institutions.

Includes discussion guide. (CD Audio, 40 minutes)

Category: Briefings (No. 4)

We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Victor E. Frankl

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