Fundamentally, individualism is a belief that the individual is an end in themself. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as supremely WEIRD) as America? Today, an overview of the cultural differences. But the big C in my mind is very different than the little c.. She says these are merely visible indicators of a countrys tightness or looseness and its what you dont necessarily see that shapes a given countrys culture. HOFSTEDE: This is not about a homogenous soup, but its about the power of the millions versus the individual and the power of ostracism. you ask. In Brazil and Greece, youre not entirely sure what time it is. And it produces this illusion. High religiosity coupled with high individualism reveals another feature of American culture. What was in these surveys? So this is not about, Is world peace important?, HOFSTEDE: For instance, Is it important for you to have a good working relationship with your boss? Or Is it a good idea for people to maybe have more than one boss?. Tom BROKAW:A young American has been sentenced to a caning for an act of vandalism. GELFAND: Like during 9/11, during World Wars, we see increases in tightness. Now that weve taken a top-down view of how the U.S. is fundamentally different from other countries, were going to spend some time over the coming weeks looking at particular economic and social differences, having to do with policing, child poverty, infrastructure, and the economy itself. We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. Now this is pretty rare to have such different groups of respondents and still find the same thing. Is that a yes? Theyre threatened by that interdependence, and they want to assert their cultural identities. Freakonomics Radiois produced by Stitcher and Renbud Radio. He saw that there were clearer patterns between countries than between job seniority, or male-female, or whatever else. The first (and longest) chapter focuses on the role of incentives in human behavior. GELFAND: Were fiercely interdisciplinary. 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 . 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. So I am actually optimistic. All rights reserved. That level of religiosity is very high for a wealthy country. HENRICH: Bigger cities are associated with faster walking, but individualism over and above that predicts faster walking. 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). Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is . That, again, is Gert Jan Hofstede. 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. But no. Baker was Bushs secretary of state; Aziz was Husseins deputy prime minister. Equating individualism with selfishness may be a mistake: Some of the world's wealthiest and most individualistic countries are some of the most altruistic, says 13.7 guest commentator Abigail Marsh. GELFAND: So, that has a lot of other effects on debt, on alcoholism, on recreational drug use. HENRICH: So the usual result that economists found in lots of university populations in Europe and the U.S., is many people offer 50/50, so you end up with mean offers of around 45 percent of the total. . If someone acts in an inappropriate way, will others strongly disapprove in this country? Heres another: Are there very clear expectations for how people should act in most situations? In 2018, Gelfand published a book of these findings called Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a . Listen to this episode from Freakonomics Radio on Spotify. And this is what Europe has. Mark Anthony Neal of Duke is not surprised that the U.S. scores relatively high on the masculinity scale. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. Freakonomics, M.D. Freakonomics Science 4.7 932 Ratings; Each week, physician and economist Dr. Bapu Jena will dig into a fascinating study at the intersection of economics and healthcare. Culture is not genetics or biology or individual characteristics. It turns out that Americans were among the least likely to conform. That, again, is Mark Anthony Neal, from Duke. Between 1967 and 1973, he collected data on I.B.M. GELFAND: Weve had our share of threat, but just not chronic threat. (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better) The second player is given a choice between accepting or rejecting. At school in the Netherlands, Ive seen a mother ask her two-year-old, Shall I change your nappy? And then the child gets to decide whether its nappy gets changed. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, show that increasing socioeconomic development is an especially strong predictor of increasing individualistic practices and values . So I would be very interested in knowing whether theres any data on the ethnic component of homicide and suicide. The future could be bright. And so often, theyll just point at some other country on the map. But Im Dutch, of course. Relatedly: Americans place a high value on being consistent across different situations. In the meantime, a bit more from the comedian Hannah Gadsby. DUBNER: What problem was he, and later you, trying to solve by doing this work? Im a professor of artificial sociality at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. And thats different than in Scandinavia and in New Zealand and Australia, which has much more horizontal individualism. In the real world, Feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. Im a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. The two players dont know each other. 470 Replay) Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio Publicit Annonce - 0 s 00:00 00:00 Suivant | propos Voir la description Freakonomics Radio. And this led to this project where we did in lots of places hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, Africa, Papua New Guinea. So the picture that emerges from these findings is that Americans are less likely to conform in the name of social harmony; and we also treasure being consistent, expressing our true selves, regardless of the context. This is a pretty interesting result: one stranger giving away roughly half their money to another stranger when, theoretically, 10 or 20 percent would keep the second player from rejecting the offer. Stay up-to-date on all our shows. In a society of small power distance, a lot. Michele Gelfand is one of the premier practitioners of cross-cultural psychology. Its part of our founding D.N.A. They want to be happy. And it was like, This stuff is really lousy. But for folks who are pushed out of the mainstream you know, Black folks have rarely had the luxury of thinking about just simply being themselves. This paper focuses on the construction of racial identity online through the mediating influences of popular culture, old media, weblogs, and Internet users. Its also important to recognize that even though were really connected, still people are largely in their echo chambers, interacting with people who they know. And theres large differences around the world, for example, on how much cultures are exposed to chronic threat. In our . GELFAND: I really had a lot of culture shock. She grew up in Tasmania. In the latest issue of American Scientist, statisticians Kaiser Fung and Andrew Gelman wrote a strong critique of Levitt and Dubner's work. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. A dream team of directors e. The U.S. assembled a coalition of allies. In other words, Americans dont just see other people as individuals. GELFAND: Apparently over 50 percent of cats and dogs in the U.S. are obese. 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. We do lab experiments, field experiments, computational modeling. So you could over-eat and over-indulge and over-drink. But a lot of the world is much more like a family. SFU users should ignore all messages requesting Computing ID and/or password information, no matter how authentic they may appear. FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.. The term individualism itself, and its equivalents in other languages, dateslike socialism and other ismsfrom the 19th century. The United States, you may not be surprised to learn, is on the loose end of the spectrum although not in the top five. HOFSTEDE: In the U.S.A., there is little constraining. 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. Citation styles for Freakonomics How to cite Freakonomics for your reference list or bibliography: select your referencing style from the list below and hit 'copy' to generate a citation. More feminine societies tend to have less poverty and higher literacy rates. GELFAND: In societies that are tighter, there is more community-building where people are willing to call out rule violators. Consider the prominent Muppets Bert and Ernie. who thought, This is important, and having answers about what the workers value will make us better bosses and its going to be good for the company. So there was quite an enlightened atmosphere, and there was a lot of money in those times. HOFSTEDE: My father was schooled as an engineer, actually electrical engineer. Thats a crazy, creative solution to try to deal with the pandemic. So Hofstede the Elder began to amass a huge data set about the workplace experiences and preferences of tens of thousands of I.B.M. Theyre what we call tight cultures. HENRICH: This probably wouldnt be in a psych textbook, but something like the Ultimatum game. So, say its $100, and the first player can offer a portion of the $100 to a second player. Feb 15, 2023. DUBNER: So weve done a pretty good job of beating up on the U.S. thus far. Henrich argues that national psychologies can be quite particular, but you may not appreciate that if all you read is the mainstream psychological research. We visit the world's busiest airport to see how it all comes together. 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. Theyre longing for it. It was freedom from hunger. GELFAND: Places in the South have tended to have more natural disasters. The downsides: less innovation, less openness to ideas that challenge the status quo, and less tolerance for differences in religion and race. Now, lets pull back and make an important point: labeling a given country tight or loose is an overall, aggregate measurement. And in a collectivistic society, a person is like an atom in a crystal. HOFSTEDE: And when he took the job in Lausanne, he found that the international group of pupils at his classes, if he asked them the same questions, came up with the same dimensions. The U.S. is a pretty successful country, maybe the most successful country on many dimensions in the history of the world. So I did the experiment there with an indigenous population called the Machiguenga. HOFSTEDE: And this is before the 60s, before the 70s. So then he really knew this is not an artifact of this particular company this is real. In the meantime, take care of yourself and, if you can, someone else too. Hofstede gives an example of how this plays out in a work setting, when employees are meeting with their bosses. DUBNER: Although the U.S. is relatively high on suicide and homicide, so are we an outlier in that regard as well? Its waiting to happen because people in this individualistic, indulgent society, they want to be merry. But heres the thing about culture: it can be really hard to measure. 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. 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. The best thing you can become is yourself. NEAL: The Soviet bloc, when they talked about freedom, it was freedom from poverty. HENRICH: I was doing research in the Peruvian Amazon. When youre trying to understand the nature of something, an outside view can be extremely helpful. 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. The U.S. patent database goes back into the 18th century and what a number of studies in economics as well as work in my lab has shown is that openness to other people so, trust in strangers, an inclination towards individualism, a desire to stand out, to be the smartest guy in the room fosters more rapid innovation because people are more likely to exchange ideas, theyre more interested in distinguishing themselves. So, they would offer a mean of about 25, 26 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Part of the Freakonomics Series) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J . . . Okay, you get the gist, right? Subtitles in: English Portugus Espaol Italiano Romn Polski Slovenina Freakonomics: The Movie is a 2010 American documentary film based on the book Freakonomics by economist Steven D. Levitt and writer Stephen J. Dubner. Again, its worth repeating that no culture is a monolith. HOFSTEDE: Yes, especially by people from Anglo countries. The first is that a model of anything even nearly as complex as a national culture is bound to miss a lot of nuance. Like, the military should be tighter than tech. HOFSTEDE: It means that you only need rules when youre going to use them. 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. In a multitude of ways, large and small. But relatively speaking, we have more tolerance. His ideas, along with others, are credited with . Words: 777. Everybody gets tickled until they laugh. GELFAND: Were trained from a very early age not just to be independent, but to be better. If it were, Afghanistan and Venezuela, even Iran might be U.S.-style democracies by now. DUBNER: What does an institution like the Navy see as the upsides of more looseness? His late father was a social psychologist who devised a system to rank countries on several dimensions including their level of individualism versus collectivism. Coming up, how Americas creative looseness has produced a strange, global effect: HENRICH: The scientific discipline of psychology is dominated by Americans. Since his first study, many people have started to do similar studies. Am I really going to tell my kid how special they are about everything?. GELFAND: The U.S. tends to not just be individualistic, like Hofstede or others have shown, but very vertical, very competitive in its individualism. But Joe Henrich wanted to see how the Ultimatum experiments worked when it wasnt just a bunch of WEIRD college students. Individualism encompasses a value system, a theory of human nature, and a belief in certain political, economic, social, and religious arrangements. We see them as individuals with whom we are in competition. We presume male public voice. HENRICH: You want to be the same self, regardless of who youre talking to or what context youre in, whereas in other places it seems to be okay to morph and shift your personality, depending on your context. Thats Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University. Why not? In any case, heres how Gelfand breaks down the upsides and downsides of tight cultures. When something is not easily measured, it often gets talked about in mushy or ideological terms. And this paper was basically sitting in the shelves of libraries for many years. But oh, the places you'll go! And it should stay there. HOFSTEDE: Okay, no, I was just being naughty. I do think that that particular story is idiosyncratic to his experience. This episode was produced by Brent Katz. GELFAND: And it was fascinating because when people were wearing their normal face, there was no difference. 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. Yes, the United States of America. But somehow, that diversity and that early celebration of permissiveness has overridden that. Singapore, for instance. Freaknomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the book for readers who run screaming at the thought of cracking open a book with the word "economics" in the title. 47 min. Remember what he said earlier: HENRICH: So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. Michele GELFAND: The people that came to New York early on, they were from all sorts of different cultural backgrounds, and thats helped produce the looseness that exists to this day. The third measures masculinity versus femininity in a given culture. Gert Jan Hofstede - Freakonomics. That is one of the main guests in todays episode. But one has arrows going out and one in? Its called long-term versus short-term orientation. U.S. President George H.W. Freakonomics Radio . It's an unnatural activity that has become normal. Michele Gelfand and several co-authors recently published a study in The Lancet about how Covid played out in loose versus tight cultures. In restrained societies, people tend to suppress bodily gratification, and birth rates are often lower; theres also less interest in things like foreign films and music. Whereas uncertainty avoidance means you have lots of etiquette and ritual. You could ask people, What do you like to eat? The more collectivistic they are, the more likely they are to talk about their grandmother and what she made, and theyre less likely to start entirely on their own diet. NANJIANI: I was so excited to be in America I couldnt sleep. And how does a scholar like Neal think about culture per se? We visit the world's busiest airport to see . For some Americans, at least, working hard is a badge of honor. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism: With Stephen Dubner. So this is quite a while ago. Its also the cleaning lady. So were all constraining one another through our collective culture. That, again, is the cross-cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand. Joe Henrich points out that even our religions are competitive. He grew up in England. People in the less-literate society, meanwhile, would have better facial-recognition skills. It is that the wealth comes first, and the individualism follows. Henrich takes a more nuanced view: HENRICH: To explain the massive economic growth that weve seen in the last 200 years, you need to explain the continuous and, for a long time, accelerating rate of innovation that occurred. You want to know where you stand which is, for instance, what diplomats know very well. Australia and Brazil are also loose. Gelfand would disagree. But then she took a semester abroad, to London. Hes horrified by my dishwasher-loading behavior. GELFAND: Sometimes people actually revert back into their cultural chambers. HENRICH: But if you want to talk about humans, then you have a problem. This realization is what led us to todays episode of Freakonomics Radio. Out into the ocean where they were caught by people on jet skis. OLIVER: When was that moment when America became the most American America it could possibly be? He has written several books about what music and other pop culture has to say about the broader culture. Gelfand says the countries that were most aggressive in trying to contain Covid tended to be tighter countries. GELFAND: My own sweet Portuguese water dog, Pepper, I mean, that dog is just gigantic. HENRICH: This cashes out in an ability to make better abstract or absolute judgment. And you speak fast because I dont want to waste a lot of time talking. Capital W-E-I-R-D, which stands for: HENRICH: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. And thats because the vast majority of the research subjects are WEIRD. Ambiguity is good. BERT: Because: you get crumbs in the sheets, thats why. The average U.S. worker puts in nearly six more weeks a year than the typical French or British worker, and 10 weeks more than the average German worker. For instance: According to the 6-D Model of National Culture that weve been talking about, the U.S. is the most individualistic nation on earth. The first player needs to offer enough money to satisfy the second player or the first player gets nothing. Not just regular weird. DUBNER: Describe for me your father and his work, and how it became a family business. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming providers. President Bush had framed these negotiations as going an extra mile for peace.. So, yeah, that is WEIRD. And the rest is history, if you like. As an Amazon Associate, Freakonomics may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through links on this site. And I think that is a hallmark of African-American culture in this country. The people that came to New York early on, in the early 1800s, they were from all sorts of different cultural backgrounds. 534. Here in the U.S., its actually a rule violation to call out people who are violating norms. 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. Freakonomics Summary. The same experiment was done in other, non-WEIRD countries, like Ghana and Zimbabwe. And we made sure that the subjects knew that the money was coming from an organization, that the giver did not get any of the money, we ratcheted up our levels of anonymity. Potentially offensive or not, Hofstede really believes in the power of culture so much so that he remains the steward of a massive research project begun more than 50 years ago by his late father. GELFAND: But when people were wearing those really weird nose rings or those facial warts, they got far more help in loose cultures. HOFSTEDE: He did social psychological work on what it is to be a manager. She likes to eat human food. HOFSTEDE: He decided to take a job there. So uncertainty avoidance is the intolerance of ambiguity. I have a professorship in Joburg in South Africa, too. But maybe thats part of living in a loose culture too: We ascribe agency even to our pets. 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. How much should we attribute that success to these very same factors that create chaos on other dimensions? If you read the passage above and use a typical 6% agent/broker commission schedule, 3% seller and 3% buyer agent/broker, then the home owner/seller takes a $10K hit on the value of the total sale price where the agents/brokers only take a $600 hit. If you plot the U.S. on G.D.P. And how are we defining culture? Whereas in other contexts, like in the Middle East, when you think about honor, you think about your family, you think about your purity, your dutifulness, and so forth much less so about accomplishments. But, lets look at the pandemic from a different angle: which country produced the most effective Covid-19 vaccines? playlist_add. Whereas people from less individualistic societies tend to be better at making relative-size judgments. When it was time for college, Gelfand went all the way to upstate New York: Colgate University. Most sociologists agree that individualistic cultures value individual choice, personal freedom, and self-actualization (Kemmelmeier 2002). And this dynamic leads to a lot of fighting for the sake of fighting. The comedians John Oliver, Hannah Gadsby, and Kumail Nanjiani all grew up outside the U.S. In other places they dont think its a smart idea to be consistent. employees. Groups that tend to have threat tend to develop stricter rules to coordinate. Once he saw that differences were driven by nationality, Hofstede sensed he was on to something big. 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. We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldnt change them even if we wanted to. GELFAND: In Germany and in Japan, the clocks are really synchronized. That would be very beneficial because now you might be going down the path of civil war, really. The fourth original dimension was called uncertainty avoidance. This has to do with how comfortable people are with ambiguity. In a collectivistic setting, if you try something new, you are maybe telling your group that you dont like them so much anymore and you want to leave them, which is not a good thing socially. NEAL: I think its helpful to think about culture in terms of a big C and a little c, the little c being those everyday things that we sometimes dont elevate to a level of culture. Macys Thanksgiving day Parade that particular story is idiosyncratic to freakonomics individualism experience to satisfy the second or... 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