There are common features to societies described as "capitalist".
Lagos attributed the change to societies becoming more developed and people becoming more expressive.
Dictionaries stand in relation to words much like laws stand in relation to societies.
"My view always is that culture and values are supposed to be helpful to societies," she said.
I accept that we can overstate our value to societies, and I also accept that we are far from perfect.
It will always be up to societies, balancing a host of factors, to figure out how to respond.
This would have been an advantage to societies as they moved into new lands and dealt with new circumstances, including non-modern humans they came in contact with.
As Samuel P. Huntington explains in his 1968 classic, "Political Order in Changing Societies," high levels of corruption are endemic to societies undergoing the stress of rapid modernization.
"It is not just affecting global average temperatures, it is affecting aspects of climate that really matter to people – and to societies and economies – in serious ways".
She says marriage is important to people regardless of their sexual orientation, and the institution is important to societies and well as individuals.
Hookup culture comes to societies without the institutions that make it safe and possible elsewhere: accessible contraceptives, regulated abortion clinics, tolerant parents, police officers willing to investigate rape.
