TY - JOUR AB - Habituation is one of natural selection's tools to limit the activating role of positive emotions. It is a barrier to expanding needs. The structural requirements for getting around this barrier are similar to the characteristics of a system of expanded inequality. Such inequality was the most likely social structure to first break this barrier. Only much later in human history could mass production technology offer an alternative means to bend habituation rules. VL - 16 IS - 9/10 SN - 0144-333X DO - 10.1108/eb013269 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013269 AU - Hammond Michael PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - EMOTIONS, HABITUATION, AND MACRO‐SOCIOLOGY: THE CASE OF INEQUALITY T2 - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 53 EP - 74 Y2 - 2024/03/19 ER -