POLSCI 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ultimatum Game, Hubris, Edward Burnett Tylor
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Super hard to define and act of hubris to try to do that. Culture is about people in different places in world and how they do things in different ways. Tylor: complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs. Boaz: totality of mental and physical reactions and activities that characterize behavioral responses to environment, others, and to himself. Lead to different sorts of biases not universal. Can differentiate between cold and hot culture based on placement near equator. Holistic vs. object culture (how people view the world) Ella frances-sanders we have different nouns. Hoffstede: you can map culture into five dimensions. Fact #1: there is no great blue heron- there is a population, it"s not a thing, but an entire popylation of it and there is a category around them. Cloud of people who are swedish and cluod of people from. Solow says that soial capital and trust have to be measurable and they cannot just be buzzwords.
