So looking decisive, muscular, active or if youre a woman, sexy that makes you more status-worthy. HOFSTEDE: If you are, lets say, a toddler, what do you get to decide for yourself? 470. She decided that the key difference, the right place to start measuring, was whether the culture in a given country is tight or loose. These attacks continue as I speak. In a multitude of ways, large and small. Henrich has also observed this about Americans. The focus of that episode was American culture. 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. DUBNER: So does all the data come from workplace interviews essentially of white-collar and pink-collar workers, or does it go broader than that? The two players dont know each other. And how are we defining culture? The fifth cultural dimension is one that I think will resonate with everyone whos ever listened to Freakonomics Radio, since it is at the crux of problem-solving. And we manipulated whether their names were like Jamal or Latisha versus Brad and Lorna. So, yeah, that is WEIRD. You can followFreakonomics RadioonApple Podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher, orwherever you get your podcasts. 1424 Words. And they pass another fish, who says, Hey, boys, hows the water? And theyre like, What the heck is water?. HENRICH: One study of the journals in social psychology shows that 96 percent of all subjects in social psychology come from societies that are Western educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. But then she took a semester abroad, to London. But relatively speaking, we have more tolerance. 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. 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. The first one measures the level of individualism in a given culture, versus collectivism. They are descended from people who came here of their own free will and in order to execute their own free will. Good on you, I say. So I am actually optimistic. So that leads to justifying more inequality. By this time, Hofstede the Elder had already gotten a Ph.D. in social science. This suggests that looseness and tightness can co-exist. The individual agents/brokers only take a $150 hit after their costs/fees. Because if you try something new, you show to the people around you that you are an individual and you can make your own decisions. Steven D Levitt. 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. Groups that tend to have threat tend to develop stricter rules to coordinate. And he tried all kinds of categories and groups. Innovation requires coming up with a lot of ideas. More information on phishing. Just like good science, good . 47 min. Individualistic countries tend to be richer, but as Hofstede the Elder once put it, The order of logic is not that individualism comes first. making a claim about his individual experiences and looking for evidence. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. To that end, the digital revolution is further shrinking the distance to power. He did some work in the factory and it shaped him to a great extent because there, he could see that the world of the organization looks so differently from the floor than it does from above. So why did someone succeed? This individualism has produced tremendous forward progress and entrepreneurial energy. 470. How much time have you spent thinking about what makes America, America? She argues that both styles have their upsides and their downsides. 470 Replay) Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio Publicit Annonce - 0 s 00:00 00:00 Suivant | propos Voir la description Freakonomics Radio. Its called long-term versus short-term orientation. His ideas, along with others, are credited with . GELFAND: All cultures have social norms, these unwritten rules that guide our behavior on a daily basis. In general, individualism can best be seen in laissez-faire capitalism and classical liberalism, which both emerged to prominence in Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Better Essays. HOFSTEDE: But it turned out that lumping them by nationality was the best thing to do. In other places they dont think its a smart idea to be consistent. Michele Gelfand wasnt interested in that. HOFSTEDE: This is actually a little bit of an unfortunate name. Gelfand would disagree. 6 Pages. Why the business school? In 1990, when Gelfand was a graduate student, she followed the news as Iraq invaded Kuwait. HOFSTEDE: You are on the masculine side not at the very end, but more on the masculine side. But its important to acknowledge that no culture is a monolith. Thats what the Ultimatum experiments set out to find. GELFAND: Were fiercely interdisciplinary. A recent paper by a Harvard postdoc named Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen analyzed Scandinavian emigration from 1850 to 1920, when roughly 25 percent of the Scandinavian population left their countries, a great many coming to the U.S. People of an individualistic mindset were more prone to migrate than their collectivistic neighbors, she writes. Im a professor of artificial sociality at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. GELFAND: Apparently over 50 percent of cats and dogs in the U.S. are obese. You always have to win. Uncertainty in economics means something very akin to risk. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming providers. This is really a conversation that pleases me a lot. This is the flip side of the idea we started out with in this episode that is, why its hard for the U.S. to simply import successful policies from elsewhere. GELFAND: And it was fascinating because when people were wearing their normal face, there was no difference. In an individualistic society, depending on how the mood is, you can get very different developments. Whats a Chaos Muppet? And it should stay there. HENRICH: But if you want to talk about humans, then you have a problem. Why have rules if you dont use them? Individualism is thought to be on the rise in Western countries, but new research suggests that increasing individualism may actually be a global phenomenon. (Part 1 of "Freakonomics Radio Takes to the Skies.") 58 min. HOFSTEDE: If I had been born in America, I would have liked it, probably, because I would have been used to it. Level of inequality C. Family composition D . We are acronymically WEIRD. And Im particularly interested in how its shaped our psychology. Yes, other phenomena like how things smell to us. The reason we reached out to Michele Gelfand is that I want to understand this stuff better, too. GELFAND: This has always been the big question, the myth that with the internet and globalization were going to become more similar. But oh, the places you'll go! Freakonomics is therefore NOT the book that I would recommend to anyone interested in (a) learning economic theory, (b) learning about how economists think, or (c) understanding the world or thinking of ways to improve it. BROADCASTER: On the third trial, something happens. So you see these eye movements that are very different. All rights reserved. Most white Americans have an entirely different ancestral history. And yes, well talk about what makes America, America at least as seen through the eyes of Kumail Nanjiani, who was born in Pakistan. There were a number of low offers of 15 percent, which didnt get rejected. Historically, politically, and yes culturally. DUBNER: And Im guessing youre the spontaneous type. Chronic threat meaning a country is prone to natural disasters, or disease, or hostile invaders. 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. Download Print. That level of religiosity is very high for a wealthy country. Freakonomics is a book about 'freaky' research and insight. The best thing you can become is yourself. 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. So the general rules of a loose or tight culture may not be consistently applied to all populations. More feminine societies tend to have less poverty and higher literacy rates. Is that a yes? And you know who else had that skill set? So the Singapore government says, Look, this is our culture The rest of that sentence didnt have to be said. 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. Or more human-made threats, like how many times has your nation been invaded over the last 100 years? HENRICH: So places like New York and London, people are blazing down the sidewalks. GELFAND: Places in the South have tended to have more natural disasters. We had a very tight social order. I think Joe Biden, for instance, hes trying to play the card of, Were all Americans. Paperback - April 22, 2020. For some Americans, at least, working hard is a badge of honor. But if youre not an economist, if youre a regular human being, you can see why the second player might reject a $1 offer. 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. GELFAND: Ill just say that there are also other contexts where we naturally tighten. That would be very beneficial because now you might be going down the path of civil war, really. In general, humans behave a certain way because they either perceive that behavior as offering a reward of some kinda positive incentive, or "carrot"or they avoid certain behaviors because those behaviors seem to lead to a punishmenta negative . "Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.". Good on you. 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). HOFSTEDE: In an individualistic society, a person is like an atom in a gas. NEAL: I often think about how the U.S. has historically thought about freedom and how, say, the Soviet bloc had talked about freedom. The U.S., according to this analysis, is comparatively a short-term country. Its focus on individual behaviour also lends itself to a preoccupation with manipulating individual choices. Gert Jan HOFSTEDE: Culture is the ripples on the ocean of human nature. DUBNER: But that the research subjects, they gave him a lot back and they thought it was going to him. Gelfand has spent a lot of time trying to understand how a given countrys looseness or tightness affects everyday life. Around this time, he started doing some teaching at the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Because $1 is more than zero, so the second player would still be better off. DUBNER: When youre inclined to look at the U.S. in a positive light, do you find uncertainty avoidance to be largely a force for the good in terms of creating and building a strong society, or do you think its more ? Gert Jan HOFSTEDE: None of it is intentional. Another one: impatience. 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. Life is going to be hard. Always check that your browser shows a closed lock icon and . The downsides of looseness are less coordination, less self-control; more crime and quality-of-life problems. HOFSTEDE: There was a Quaker at the head of I.B.M. 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. GELFAND: I was watching this negotiation between Tariq Aziz and James Baker. 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. If you plot the U.S. on G.D.P. GELFAND: And there was discussion in the cross-cultural psychology community about how James Bakers unemotionalcommunication style was received as This is not so serious, in terms of Tariq Azizs understanding of Americans intentions. Mark Anthony Neal of Duke is not surprised that the U.S. scores relatively high on the masculinity scale. 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). Each and every person has individual reasons for pursuing a career, or goal. GELFAND: Exactly. HOFSTEDE: I like this question a lot. The people that came to New York early on, in the early 1800s, they were from all sorts of different cultural backgrounds. Once you begin looking for evidence, you see an almost infinite array of examples. GELFAND: Having more adaptability, more innovation. Everyone knows there are differences between people in different countries, but his approach was a quantifiable approach. I hate to call out Michele Gelfand, but even in the loosest of cultures, dogs dont have unfettered access to food. After all, they were the data set. So that can be very beneficial. The correct answer of the given question above would be the second option. And for me, its hard to divorce the toxicity of the grind from the toxicity of masculinity, when you always have to dominate. Our staff also includesAlison Craiglow,Greg Rippin,Joel Meyer,Tricia Bobeda,Mary Diduch, Zack Lapinski,Emma Tyrrell, Lyric Bowditch, Jasmin Klinger,andJacob Clemente. I get these words out so I can get on to the next thing. In another condition, they were wearing tattoos and nose rings and purple hair. Im like, Were going to go to Singapore if you people dont behave.. Let's now consider the following statistic, which represents the hundreds of matches in which a 7-7 wrestler faced an 8-6 wrestler on a tournament's final day: 7-7 WRESTLER'S PREDICTED WIN PERCENTAGE AGAINST 8-6 OPPONENT: 48.77-7 WRESTLER'S ACTUAL WIN PERCENTAGE AGAINST 8-6 OPPONENT: 79.6So the 7-7 wrestler, based on . Henrich is saying that the export of American ideas isnt necessarily easier. So $10 in this case. Like, the military should be tighter than tech. We need to change our practices. This is the dimension based on data from the World Values Survey. International, and they were just starting international opinion surveys. She did want to measure culture, and how it differs from place to place. And theres large differences around the world, for example, on how much cultures are exposed to chronic threat. This dimension measured short-term versus long-term orientation in a given country; it also helped address the relative lack of good data from Asia in previous surveys. There is a strong desire to be more feminine. HENRICH: We have a kind of religiosity equivalent to somewhere like Kuwait. We met him earlier, but just briefly; heres a proper introduction. Were realizing that part of that push forward theres a toxicity to that in terms of how you treat other people, how you think about institutions. And I think that is a hallmark of African-American culture in this country. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. You look at parents and how they treat their kids art. Michele Gelfand has another example of how culture shapes perception. HOFSTEDE: He did social psychological work on what it is to be a manager. . And you need revolutions in order to change the government. The answer to that is usually: no, you cant. One hallmark of short-term thinking: a tendency toward black and white moral distinctions versus shades of gray. 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. (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better) GELFAND: I really had a lot of culture shock. Well call it The U.S. Is Very Different from Other Countries So Lets Stop Pretending Its Not. Its the first in a series of episodes where well look at different pieces of that difference. 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 if you get crumbs in your pajamas, theyll make you itch. But its also a tremendous outlier. The American model is among the most successful and envied models in the history of the world. Individualism places great value on self-reliance, on . Theyre what we call tight cultures. 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. DUBNER: Name some of the highest and lowest countries on this dimension. Joe Henrich points out that even our religions are competitive. after? And also, of course, people listening to this: Make it happen, come on. GELFAND: Its like that story of two fish where theyre swimming along. 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. That, again, is the cross-cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand. Out into the ocean where they were caught by people on jet skis. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. Capital W-E-I-R-D, which stands for: HENRICH: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. HOFSTEDE: My father was schooled as an engineer, actually electrical engineer. DUBNER: These are the two lines that are the same. Latin countries tend to be more collectivistic, especially Spain and Portugal not so much Italy and France. We look at how these traits affect . And when I started to work with Harry Triandis, who was one of the founders of the field, I thought, Wow, this is a super-interesting construct. HOFSTEDE: Yes, especially by people from Anglo countries. Did you know there is an entire academic field called cross-cultural psychology? Its an experiment developed in the early 1980s by, among others, the German economist Werner Gth . The U.S. is overall relatively loose. Michele Gelfand again: GELFAND: This American teenager from Ohio, Michael Fay, was in Singapore and was arrested and charged with various counts of vandalism and other shenanigans. Yes, the United States of America. And things worked out well for them for a bit. Gelfand says the countries that were most aggressive in trying to contain Covid tended to be tighter countries. Culture is about, if you are a part of a society, youre like one drop in the Mississippi River. Sinopsis. The sixth dimension is called indulgence vs. restraint.. In case you missed it, thats Western. So they might offer, say, 10 out of the 100. HOFSTEDE: Yes, of course. GELFAND: I was planning to become a cross-cultural trainer to work at the State Department and train people to understand culture. Singapore, for instance. HOFSTEDE: My name is Gert Jan Hofstede. As Hofstede the Younger remembers it, his father asked his bosses at I.B.M. Can that possibly be trueour culture shapes our genetics? HOFSTEDE: You could say these six dimensions of culture, they are perimeters to our sociality. Freakonomics (2005) aplica el anlisis econmico racional a situaciones cotidianas, desde las citas en lnea hasta la compra de una casa. And you speak fast because I dont want to waste a lot of time talking. HOFSTEDE: Which doesnt mean egoism, but it could go that way. So uncertainty avoidance is the intolerance of ambiguity. And then theres the big C, the stuff that we have these big conversations about, that we do these incredible studies about, which is really about the worldview of groups of people coming together, in a community, in a nation, in a family, right? We just need to do it. NEAL: Were a country that presumes male leadership. He interviewed people at I.B.M. So, what is it? I had been led to believe, by you, that you are as dumb as bricks. It was freedom from all these debilitating things because the state would be able to provide for you. GELFAND: The U.S. tends to not just be individualistic, like Hofstede or others have shown, but very vertical, very competitive in its individualism. Whether this means something brings you financial, emotional, or even community benefit. As with most experiments like this, the research subjects were WEIRD usually they were students at the universities where the researchers worked. Freakonomics Summary. 1, the most individualistic country in the world, 91 out of 100 on the Hofstede scale of individualism. Compared to other countries including places like Japan, Singapore, Germany we can afford to be more permissive. Documentary. DUBNER: What does an institution like the Navy see as the upsides of more looseness? 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 . In our previous episode, we made what may sound like a bold claim. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The Freakonomics podcast "Is the American Dream really dead?", mentions five main factors that contribute to social mobility in neighborhoods. GELFAND: So, that has a lot of other effects on debt, on alcoholism, on recreational drug use. Im a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Later on, fast forward, Pertti Pelto, whos an anthropologist. Not necessarily better or worse but very different. I know that wasnt your intention. And it drives us crazy. And the Machiguenga were much closer to the predictions of Homo economicus, where youd make low offers and never reject. What was I.B.M. If . So the U.S. produces the sort of Wal-Mart equivalent of religions: big churches giving the people what they want, high pageantry. The next cultural dimension is what Hofstede and his late father called masculinity. That title is a bit misleading. The five tightest countries are Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, and our old friend Singapore. If basic things like visual illusions are not universal, what about other phenomena? We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldnt change them even if we wanted to. It means you really want to know and youre not satisfied until you know. These were surveys of I.B.M.s own employees around the world. It shouldnt surprise anyone that individualism might contribute to inequality or at least, as Henrich puts it, the justification of inequality. 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. The concept of incentives is a way of explaining why human beings do things. But its not only compliance. And some advice from our new Dutch friend. Even Gert Jan Hofstede suggests that his model shouldnt be seen as overly deterministic. Consider the prominent Muppets Bert and Ernie. SFU will never request our users provide or confirm their Computing ID or password via email or by going to any web site. How much should we attribute that success to these very same factors that create chaos on other dimensions? HOFSTEDE: Masculine society means that if you show power, that gives you social status. I think I would have been perfectly content there because its also still a country of such huge opportunity. GELFAND: Well, we can look back to Herodotus. So, they would offer a mean of about 25, 26 percent. They dont even see each other and this is a one-time interaction, so there wont be another round of the game where the second player can punish or reward the first player. HENRICH: My favorite explanation for this I think this has been put out most clearly by a sociologist named Rodney Stark is that with freedom of religion, you get competition amongst religious organizations. There is some overlap between these six dimensions and some of the ideas we talked about in last weeks episode particularly the notion that some national cultures tend to be tight and others loose. Sometimes incentives will be obvious, but often they will be hidden - and . In the meantime, take care of yourself and, if you can, someone else too. China is also very collectivistic and so are the Southeast Asian countries, but not Japan. GELFAND: Weve had our share of threat, but just not chronic threat. And its another dimension on which the U.S. is a substantial outlier. In Brazil and Greece, youre not entirely sure what time it is. Factor analysis being a way to distill a large number of variables into an index, essentially a ranking. We said that a lot of good ideas and policies that work elsewhere in the world cant work in the U.S. because our culture is just different. Gert Jan Hofstede - Freakonomics. Really? Nevertheless, you might be able to intentionally create pockets of looseness so you can have more balance. When Americans did this experiment, a third of them conformed and gave an obviously wrong answer. Whereas we usually describe a scent by saying something that it smells like.. Culture can be quite an offensive concept, particularly to people who project it onto an individual characteristic, as if it was about an individual. DUBNER: What are some of the consequences of being relatively tolerant of uncertainty, as the U.S. is? We put in a bunch of other checks and controls. The converse, which is what Anglo societies are high on, means you dont care about ambiguity. The third measures masculinity versus femininity in a given culture. And the rest is history, if you like. In Germany, for instance, labor unions often have a representative on company boards, which can radically change the dynamic between companies and employees. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader's eyes to unseen things in everyday life. Let me give a little background. The Hofstede scale puts the U.S. at 62 out of 100 on masculinity relatively high but substantially less masculine than China, Mexico, and much of Eastern Europe. Whatd they say? So after we ran that first project, we redid the entire project, and we took concerns like the one Francisco had. We owe much of our freedom to that influence. 702 Episodes. The U.S. comes in on the indulgent side, at 68. (Ep. But one has arrows going out and one in? And it got the attention of President Clinton: Bill CLINTON: Its the first Ive heard of it, Ill look into it. Theyre more permissive. HOFSTEDE: Okay, no, I was just being naughty. HOFSTEDE: Its rather futile to advise somebody what their national culture should be because theres no way you can change it. But Joe Henrich wanted to see how the Ultimatum experiments worked when it wasnt just a bunch of WEIRD college students. 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