The Grammar of Society
The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms
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- Author: Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania
- Date Published: December 2005
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- isbn: 9780521574907
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Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, generated expectations and evolution and change. Drawing on intellectual traditions and methods, including those of social psychology, experimental economics and evolutionary game theory, Bicchieri provides an integrated account of how social norms emerge and why and when we follow them. Examining the existence and survival of inefficient norms, she demonstrates how norms evolve in ways that depend upon the psychological dispositions of the individual and how such dispositions may impair social efficiency.
Read more- A theory of social norms
- A combination of experimental and modelling theoretical tools
- An interdisciplinary study bringing together the best of different methods to study social norms
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"In The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms, Cristina Bicchieri presents a new interpretation of social norms that will offend psychologists, economists, and sociologists alike, and therein lies its value." PsycCritiques Joachim I. Krueger
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- Date Published: December 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521574907
- length: 278 pages
- dimensions: 203 x 156 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The rule we live by
2. Habits of the mind
3. A taste for fairness
4. Covenants without sword
5. Informational cascades and unpopular norms
6. The evolution of a fairness norm.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Philosophy of Social Science
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