I believe the answer is: <span>generativity vs. stagnation
Generativity in this context refers to the act leaving your mark in society by giving it some sort of contribution for the collective goods. Stagnation on the other hand, tend to be chosen by people who already content with what they have (or too afraid to fail for some)
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The Maya adapted to the environment by having deer and monkeys as food. Trees and other plants were also good building materials. The Maya built structures such as large public meeting spaces, canals to control the flow of water, and fashioned nearby hills into flat terraces on which peasants could farm.
The Roman Empire existed from around 27 BCE until it’s fall in 1453.
It could be circuit of information or mass communication.
The answer is: people conform when they face ambiguous situations
In the study, Sherif put the subjects in a dark room and told them to to watch a pinpoint of light and let the researchers know how far has the light moved.
Sherif put several actors among the subjects in order to collectively support a false interpretation and voiced their opinion to the group.
The result is fascinating. As it turned out, large portion of the non-actors subjects actually choose to disregard their opinion and choose to conform to the actors'opinion in the ambiguous situations.
