You may decide to go another way, but that doesnt make the river change. If you dont feel that, then you will be an unhappy person. In our previous episode, we made what may sound like a bold claim. Stripped of our culturally acquired mental skills, he writes, we are not so impressive when we go head-to-head in problem-solving tests against other apes, and we certainly are not impressive enough to account for the vast success of our species. Henrich recently followed that book with another one called The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Compared to other countries including places like Japan, Singapore, Germany we can afford to be more permissive. playlist_add. China, Japan, and Turkey are also tight. Levitt's research on teacher cheating using Chicago Public Schools data.Clip from the 2010 documentary "Freakonomics: The Movie". We just need to do it. And you could have a perfect storm in that direction. I have a professorship in Joburg in South Africa, too. 470. HOFSTEDE: But it turned out that lumping them by nationality was the best thing to do. All contents Freakonomics. Fundamentally, individualism is a belief that the individual is an end in themself. And that really can help explain some variation not all, but some variation in norms and values. employees spread across the globe. We are supremely WEIRD. There, its really important to maintain that humility, to be focused on your privacy, but not trying to one-up other people. You may decide to go another way, but that doesnt make the river change. "Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.". Individualism, Modern Capitalism, and Dystopian Visions Introduction to Heritage and Multicultural American Identities: Contemporary Voices (1970-2000) Introduction to Contemporary Literature of the Twenty-First Century The Poetry of Physics RL.CCR.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. Mark Anthony Neal of Duke is not surprised that the U.S. scores relatively high on the masculinity scale. Part of it is that when you live in a world that has carpented environments like right angles, where we live in houses in the States makes us focus on those right angles. I think the models dont account for that because you cant account for that, right? Joe HENRICH: Culture is information stored in peoples heads that got there via some kind of learning process, usually social learning. NANJIANI: I was so excited to be in America I couldnt sleep. But Gelfand saw an even bigger question: How can you understand culture if you dont know exactly what it is? All rights reserved. Whereas people from less individualistic societies tend to be better at making relative-size judgments. HOFSTEDE: In a cultural sense, no, I dont think so. Just like good science, good . According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better). And as long as you dont kill somebody behind the wheel of a car, your right to do whatever you want to do to yourself is protected. NEAL: I often think about how the U.S. has historically thought about freedom and how, say, the Soviet bloc had talked about freedom. So its hard to simply transplant another countrys model for education or healthcare, no matter how well it might seem to fit. Where would you think the U.S. ranks among all the countries measured on this dimension? Because for all the so-called globalization of the past half-century or so, the U.S. still differs from other countries in many ways. And in a restrained society, theres going to be suicide. DUBNER: Can you give me a good example of an idea or a theory that I might come across in a Psych 101 textbook that would just be so American that it wouldnt really be useful if you actually care about humans? DUBNER: And what would you say is maybe a political ramification of low power distance? Meaning, if you grew up in someplace like the U.S., when you look at an image youre more likely to pay attention to whats in the foreground, in the center. The people that came to New York early on, in the early 1800s, they were from all sorts of different cultural backgrounds. HENRICH: So, Francisco is a good pal of mine and hes also a very charming fellow. Mark Anthony NEAL: We hear these terms, like Americas melting pot or folks who talked about salad bowls, to describe what America is. For instance, the rhythm of vaccination in the U.S.A. is very fast. Thats to say that it emphasizes privacy and independence, like the U.S., but its much more egalitarian. data, gathered in the late 60s and early 70s. (Part 1 of " Freakonomics Radio Takes to the Skies .") As we heard, the first four dimensions originated with the I.B.M. HOFSTEDE: For the U.S.A., the world is like a market. Based on the bestselling book of the same name, FREAKONOMICS attempts to break down dense economic theories and data into digestible bits. So that leads to justifying more inequality. Those are the upsides. Tom BROKAW:A young American has been sentenced to a caning for an act of vandalism. Freakonomics, which weighs in at just over 200 pages (plus a hefty section of bonus material for those interested in learning more), takes as its principal argument the idea that economics exist as a tool to study society. Allen Lane 20, pp304. There were a number of low offers of 15 percent, which didnt get rejected. GELFAND: In the U.S., various newspapers covered the story. You can never admit weakness or failure. This episode was produced by Brent Katz. Long Island, New York, is thebirthplace of the American suburb. The first one measures the level of individualism in a given culture, versus collectivism. These attacks continue as I speak. GELFAND: Places in the South have tended to have more natural disasters. Historically, politically, and yes culturally. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? GELFAND: So, that has a lot of other effects on debt, on alcoholism, on recreational drug use. HOFSTEDE: Its rather futile to advise somebody what their national culture should be because theres no way you can change it. There is a strong desire to be more feminine. As an Amazon Associate, Freakonomics may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through links on this site. Capital W-E-I-R-D, which stands for: HENRICH: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.. Yes, other phenomena like how things smell to us. GELFAND: Classic things like the Mller-Lyer Illusion, which is these two lines where one looks longer than the other. So, culture is about values, beliefs, absorbed ideas and behaviors. Thats the cross-cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand. Heres the dean of the National University of Singapores school of public health: YIK-YING TEO: We have a tradition of having national campaigns to galvanize people to proceed in a common direction. The incentives of just any regular person are greatly shown because money or personal gain can take over any man or woman no matter how old. The sixth dimension is called indulgence vs. restraint.. Offers went up as high as 55 or 60 percent in some places and then down around 25 percent in other places. It's part of our founding D.N.A. Mobility also produces looseness, because its harder to agree upon any norm. DUBNER: What are some of the consequences of being relatively tolerant of uncertainty, as the U.S. is? But no. Theyre what we call tight cultures. GELFAND: Were trained from a very early age not just to be independent, but to be better. Heres how he puts it in his latest book: You cant separate culture from psychology or psychology from biology, because culture physically rewires our brains and thereby shapes how we think. One example he gives is literacy. GELFAND: If youre in contexts where theres a lot of rules, you develop from a very early age that impulse control. The downsides: less innovation, less openness to ideas that challenge the status quo, and less tolerance for differences in religion and race. 470 Replay) Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio Publicit Annonce - 0 s 00:00 00:00 Suivant | propos Voir la description Freakonomics Radio. I do this for you and you do this for me. Folks who come from a collective standpoint where, I do this for you, but youre doing this for us thats a very, very different way of seeing the world. We had a lot of struggles with tightening during Covid, clearly. GELFAND: My own sweet Portuguese water dog, Pepper, I mean, that dog is just gigantic. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; were also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on uncertainty avoidance, if that makes you feel better). Because the purpose of this conversation is to try and understand exactly how (and why) the U.S. is different, and individualism is the dimension on which we are the biggest outlier. HENRICH: If you go to other societies, people are much more willing to give the same wrong answer to go along with others. Yes, the United States of America. We need to change our practices. So I would be very interested in knowing whether theres any data on the ethnic component of homicide and suicide. The five loosest countries according to this analysis were Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, and the Netherlands. Also, he uses some very bold examples (crime rates versus abortion, drug dealership, cheating teachers, etc) to make some very simple . This suggests that looseness and tightness can co-exist. on one axis and religiosity on the other axis, the U.S. is a clear and distinct outlier with high G.D.P and high religion. Culturally maybe more than anything! DUBNER: But that the research subjects, they gave him a lot back and they thought it was going to him. HOFSTEDE: Okay, no, I was just being naughty. Freakonomics is a registered service mark of Renbud Radio, LLC. after? DUBNER: So I have to say, Gert Jan, youve made me feel kind of terrible about being American today. Around this time, he started doing some teaching at the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. HOFSTEDE: You are on the masculine side not at the very end, but more on the masculine side. Hofstede analyzed these data at what he called the ecological level. He explained this approach in a paper called Flowers, Bouquets, and Gardens the idea being that an individual flower is a subset of a mixed bouquet, which in turn is a subset of an entire garden, which has even more variation. Heres how it works. Although it is more self-help than traditional economics it shares many of the weaknesses of more serious works in the discipline. NEAL: We think about improvisation in the context, obviously, of creative and musical terms, but its also a way of always having to adapt to the changing political, social, and cultural realities. Fortune, by the Hitchhikers; the rest of the music this week was composed byLuis Guerra. We met him earlier, but just briefly; heres a proper introduction. And thats going to cultivate certain tonal abilities, which could feed into certain kinds of music, and things like that. It always was unsustainable, but was made even more acute to us. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. Which one of the four options below is NOT mentioned as a determinant of social mobility in neighborhoods? You can even see the evidence in the clocks that appear on city streets. They are descended from people who came here of their own free will and in order to execute their own free will. As of today, it covers six dimensions or, as the Hofstedes put it, six basic issues that society needs to organize itself. Its called the 6-D, or 6-Dimension, Model of National Culture, and it is one of the most intriguing explanations Ive ever seen for why American society is such an outlier in the world for better and worse. So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people, and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. In the beginning, Feldman left behind an open basket for the cash, but too often the money vanished. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertain. So, today on Freakonomics Radio: can we really build a model that explains why the American psyche is so unusual? And I think that is a hallmark of African-American culture in this country. You have to behave like a family member if you want to be one. And we found the full spectrum of variation. And theres large differences around the world, for example, on how much cultures are exposed to chronic threat. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. Individualism places great value on self-reliance, on . (Part 1 of "Freakonomics Radio Takes to the Skies.") 58 min. The answer to that is usually: no, you cant. Controlling for a variety of other factors, they found that looser countries the U.S., Brazil, Italy, and Spain have had roughly five times the number of Covid cases and nearly nine times as many deaths as tighter countries. GELFAND: All cultures have social norms, these unwritten rules that guide our behavior on a daily basis. GELFAND: This has always been the big question, the myth that with the internet and globalization were going to become more similar. Its part of our founding D.N.A. HOFSTEDE: There was a Quaker at the head of I.B.M. So were all constraining one another through our collective culture. Some of the measurable differences were a bit odd. And it got the attention of President Clinton: Bill CLINTON: Its the first Ive heard of it, Ill look into it. The book takes the form of six chapters. HOFSTEDE: This is a very American question, Stephen. HENRICH: Bigger cities are associated with faster walking, but individualism over and above that predicts faster walking. What we saw in Egypt was very similar. They made sure to include a variety of ages, occupations, religions, social and economic classes. You might think that someone who studies cross-cultural psychology also grew up abroad, or at least in some big city with a melting-pot vibe. Factor analysis being a way to distill a large number of variables into an index, essentially a ranking. Segments: - A Roshanda By Any Other Name : Morgan Spurlock's investigation of the possible implications of names, especially "black" vs. "white" names, in personal . HOFSTEDE: Masculine society means that if you show power, that gives you social status. But relatively speaking, we have more tolerance. When Hofstede the Elder went to work for I.B.M., he got involved with these surveys. The U.S. assembled a coalition of allies. People get less interested. Okay, it took half of this episode to go through just the first of the six dimensions of national culture individualism versus collectivism. In our . He would spend the rest of his life building out the 6-Dimension Model of National Culture. Industrialized. Loose cultures tend to be found in English-speaking countries as well as Latin-American, Latin-European, and formerly Communist cultures. And so you walk faster because you cant get everything you need done in your day and youre always trying to get to the next event. And how are we defining culture? It shouldnt surprise anyone that individualism might contribute to inequality or at least, as Henrich puts it, the justification of inequality. Tightness may create compliance; but looseness can drive innovation and creativity. Were trying to buy time, save time. Why not? So, yes, the same attributes that can be a big problem can also be a big boost. So if you ask people to judge the absolute lengths of two lines, people in more individualistic societies tend to get that right. But yes, its all workplace. Better Essays. More feminine societies tend to have less poverty and higher literacy rates. On the more feminine end of the spectrum are the Scandinavian countries and some of Western Europe. All rights reserved. The authors seek to find simple answers to complicated world problems. And you need revolutions in order to change the government. Employees were asked to rate how much they agreed with statements like Competition among employees usually does more harm than good. And, Having interesting work is just as important to most people as having high earnings., HOFSTEDE: Simple questions about daily things that people understand. Thats Joe Henrich, a professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard; hes also a scholar of psychology, economics, and anthropology. And this led to this project where we did in lots of places hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, Africa, Papua New Guinea. DUBNER: Describe for me your father and his work, and how it became a family business. But Im Dutch, of course. After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader's eyes to unseen things in everyday life. Thats my idea. When youre trying to understand the nature of something, an outside view can be extremely helpful. And democratic. On many Freakonomics Radio episodes, well hear about some idea or policy that works well elsewhere in the world but hasnt taken root in the U.S. And its not because they themselves dont have collective experiences, particularly within ethnicity, but part of the price of becoming American is to give up the collectivity of your ethnic background. According to the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of Americans claim to believe in God, 55 percent pray at least daily, and 36 percent attend a religious service at least once a week. And thats different than in Scandinavia and in New Zealand and Australia, which has much more horizontal individualism. When they took out Mubarak, this went the opposite extreme to almost anomie, normlessness. Gert Jan Hofstede is a Dutch culture scholar whos been walking us through these dimensions. This does not mean that no one in a loose culture, like the U.S., is stigmatized or mistreated. So, lets try to measure this., Gelfand and several colleagues undertook a massive research project, interviewing some 7,000 people from 33 countries on five continents. But if you want to talk about humans, Homo sapiens, then you have a generalization problem. We should be nice to one another. But when push comes to shove, most of the time it doesnt go that way. This suggests that every time a social scientist runs an experiment whose research subjects are WEIRD thats capital-letter WEIRD the results of that experiment may be meaningful in the U.S. and some other places, but quite likely not in others. GELFAND: The U.S. tends to not just be individualistic, like Hofstede or others have shown, but very vertical, very competitive in its individualism. The U.S. is a pretty successful country, maybe the most successful country on many dimensions in the history of the world. And for me, its hard to divorce the toxicity of the grind from the toxicity of masculinity, when you always have to dominate. Is that a yes? HENRICH: If they accept the offer, they get the amount of the offer. In the N.F.L., the long snapper is . Did you know there is an entire academic field called cross-cultural psychology? And it was like, This stuff is really lousy. HOFSTEDE: And his special methodological trick was not to do what is now called a pan-cultural analysis across all the respondents, but first to lump them into groups. Fortune, by the Hitchhikers; the rest of the music this week was composed byLuis Guerra. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn't) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about anything. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel . Which is more dangerous, a gun or a . Let me give a little background. HOFSTEDE: In the U.S.A., individualism coupled with masculinity creates a society where if youre not a winner, youre a loser. Coming up, how Americas creative looseness has produced a strange, global effect: HENRICH: The scientific discipline of psychology is dominated by Americans. What was in these surveys? But some cultures strictly abide by their norms. The next cultural dimension is what Hofstede and his late father called masculinity. That title is a bit misleading. Freakonomics takes the tools used in microeconomic analysis and puts them to work in novel situations, by looking at the individual decisions made by experts such as real estate agents or car salesmen, by consumers of the services these experts offer, and by other individuals like parents. Once you begin looking for evidence, you see an almost infinite array of examples. GELFAND: I grew up on Long Island. Michael Fay wasnt a tourist; he was living in Singapore with his family, attending an American school. So, say its $100, and the first player can offer a portion of the $100 to a second player. (That will also need some explaining.) And we manipulated whether their names were like Jamal or Latisha versus Brad and Lorna. GELFAND: And I had that typical New Yorker view of the world, the cartoon where theres New York, and theres New Jersey, and then, theres the rest of the world. On a certain level, this is obvious: These are cultures that have norms and traditions that have endured for centuries. For some Americans, at least, working hard is a badge of honor. Next on the list: what Hofstedes late father, the originator of this culture model, called power distance. Thats the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations or institutions be it society at large or just a family accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.. It was there, and later on in travels in the Middle East, and working on a kibbutz, and elsewhere, that I started recognizing this really powerful force of culture that was incredibly important but really invisible. Whereas looking away in a very egalitarian society is seen as a sign of deceptiveness. You might want to change, but if you get ostracized, its very difficult to persist. Wade meant that these unwanted children were not being bornthus, they could not grow up to be criminals. And then in a third condition they were wearing just their face. But everybody, of course, instinctively feels and should feel that their country, or whatever their tribe is, is the best in the world. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism av Freakonomics Radio direkt i din mobil, surfplatta eller webblsare - utan app. Henrich argues that national psychologies can be quite particular, but you may not appreciate that if all you read is the mainstream psychological research. HENRICH: But if you want to talk about humans, then you have a problem. Based on the given excerpt above from Freakonomics, the claim that is supported by the evidence in this excerpt is that, The close relationship between sumo wrestlers could be an incentive for an elite wrestler to throw a match he doesn't need to win. Self-centered so if you give them tasks and have them list traits about themselves, theyll tend to list their attributes and characteristics rather than their relationships. The Neglected 95%: Why American Psychology Needs to Become Less American, Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population Using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities, Westerners and Easterners See the World Differently, Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies, Ultimatum Game with Ethnicity Manipulation: Problems Faced Doing Field Economic Experiments and Their Solutions, Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior? That would be very beneficial because now you might be going down the path of civil war, really. This carries over into many areas of society, including the labor market. Its trying to include all the stuff that we acquire as a consequence of growing up in different environments, and contrast that with things like our sex drive, which doesnt seem to be acquired by observing others. Whereas if you have a state religion, it tends to get tired and old and boring. Groups that tend to have threat tend to develop stricter rules to coordinate. GELFAND: The next day, I booked a trip to Egypt. His ideas, along with others, are credited with . So the Singapore government says, Look, this is our culture The rest of that sentence didnt have to be said. The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling professor of psychology Angela Duckworth. And this paper was basically sitting in the shelves of libraries for many years. If youre a constrained sort of person, you wont go far in the U.S. Stephen DUBNER: Im curious whether youve ever been accused of political incorrectness in your study of national cultures. Whether proud or not, whether happy or not, it has a position. As a result, the needs of individuals dictate social behaviors, rather than the needs of larger groups. As its been said: Everyone knows that 11 oclock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life. Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of African and African-American studies at Duke, notes that American individualism is hardly experienced equally across the population. Baker was Bushs secretary of state; Aziz was Husseins deputy prime minister. But it was serious. Theyre able to make finer distinctions in terms of their olfaction. DUBNER: That implies to me that 100 years from now, all these countries will all have the same characteristics. Sinopsis. The best thing you can become is yourself. In the meantime, take care of yourself and, if you can, someone else too. OLIVER: Baseballs were hit from the deck of a warship from a needlessly inflatable batting cage. If youre violating the social order, youre going to be punished.. The U.S. comes in on the indulgent side, at 68. But then she took a semester abroad, to London. But Bush also wanted to avoid going to war with Iraq. The first: individualism versus collectivism. And by the way, in that sense, the U.S.A. is also a huge laboratory of society formation, hopefully, which is by no means finished. Whatd they say? . So I have no doubt that his subjects really liked him. Greeks are very strong on that. GELFAND: Clinton went to negotiate to say, Hey, this is just totally inappropriate, this punishment. And the Singaporean governments reaction was, Look, this is our culture. So the scientific discipline of psychology is dominated by Americans. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. And if you get crumbs in your pajamas, theyll make you itch. DUBNER: Im curious for advice on how we should balance weve become an economic powerhouse, and we recognize that there is a lot of benefit to that. But its not only compliance. In the end, he resorted to making small plywood boxes with a slot cut into . Thats John Oliver. GELFAND: In cross-cultural psychology, we study how ecological and historical factors cause the evolution of differences. But the big C in my mind is very different than the little c.. And there are other inconsistencies, especially in a country as large and diverse as the U.S. For instance, where you live. GELFAND: When we ask people, What does honor mean to you? in the U.S., a lot of people talk about work. HOFSTEDE: Yes. He grew up in England. Downloads: 18. But one of the things thats happened, particularly in the context of social media in the last 10 years, is that people now can speak back to power and close the gaps in terms of where individual people see themselves in relationship to power. HOFSTEDE: If I had been born in America, I would have liked it, probably, because I would have been used to it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner.Published on April 12, 2005, by William Morrow, the book has been described as melding pop culture with economics. HENRICH: And the case I make is its been highly unsuccessful to just pick up institutions that evolved in Western societies and transport them to drop them in Africa or the Middle East or places like that, because there needs to be a fit between how people think about the world, their values, worldviews, motivations, and the affordances of the institution. HOFSTEDE: Yes, especially by people from Anglo countries. Its an experiment developed in the early 1980s by, among others, the German economist Werner Gth . How much should we attribute that success to these very same factors that create chaos on other dimensions? 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