Stage 2: Ego-centric Explorative-Competitive Collectivist Society

• Key Features:

  • Counter-dependent behaviors emerge, characterized by rebellion and competition.

  • Increased desire for individual achievement, ambition, and material success.

  • Emotions such as shame, denial, and apathy toward risk dominate.

  • Individuals begin to assert themselves, often through aggression or narcissism.

  • Society remains collectivist in structure but embraces competitive values, driven by the pursuit of power, achievement, and hedonism.