LIR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Masculinity, Autoethnography, Marcel Proust
19 Jun 2018
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Lecture 12
Macro-patterns
Correlations with economic development
- In Lustic and Coestar reading there are clear correlations between individualism vs.
collectivism dimension, power distance dimension and in some sense the uncertainty
dimension and even the long term vs. short term time dimensions
- Apart from the individualism vs. collectivism distinction it is simply not a matter of
wealthy vs. poorer
- Individualism is clearly correlated with increased wealth capacity
- Collectivist societies by contrast are poor
- Power distance- wealth and economic development show some correlation but has to do
more with distribution of wealth
- High power distance societies tend to have unequal distribution of wealth- more people in
poverty
- low power distance societies tend to be more equal with distribution of wealth
- uncertainty avoidance- can sort of see correlations with economic development but has
more to do with modernization- where given country falls on climb of modernization-
country beginning to modernize may look less wealthy but that tends to correlate with
uncertainty avoidance
- low uncertainty avoidance have already modernized, life styles more stable, do not need
as many rules and regulations because it can cope with uncertainty when it comes-
modernization and economy go hand in hand
- long term vs. short term time dimension- correlates with economic growth, does not
mean countries short term economies do not grow, it is just that you cannot predict
growth based on short time, whereas you can predict growth in long haul and with
country long term
- individualism vs. collectivism more clear- other four complicates
- remember these for final exam
Correlations with geographic environment
- discussed in Lustic reading
- has to do with warmer vs. colder climates- on earth it correlates with distance of the
equator, further you are from equator the colder it gets
- societies developed further north of equator show distinct differences to societies close to
equator
- according to Hofstede- patterns show up more strongly with individualism vs.
collectivism, masculinity vs. feminity and power distance
- masculininity vs feminity not in economic
- All these dimensions share that they are correlated with climate differential
- Individualism vs. collectivism- individualist societies tend to be found in colder societies,
collectivist societies tend to be found where it is warmer
- Masculinity vs feminity- feminine societies in older climates, masculine in warmer
societies
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