{"id":41073,"date":"2011-05-28T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2011-05-28T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T21:23:57","slug":"loose-vs-tight-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/28\/loose-vs-tight-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Loose vs. tight societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\/public\/citation_icons\/rb2_large_gray.png\" alt=\"ResearchBlogging.org\" \/><\/a>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/332\/6033\/1100.abstract\">paper<\/a> in <em>Science<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/332\/6033\/1100.abstract\">Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study<\/a>, is making the media rounds. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/27\/136679024\/of-war-and-kisses-how-adversity-shapes-culture\">NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;The idea for this study really dates to the 1960s. Back then, an anthropologist decided to evaluate a few dozen obscure cultures and see if he could rank them on a scale from &#8220;tight&#8221; to &#8220;loose.&#8221; He defined tight cultures as having a lot of rules, which people violate at their peril. Loose cultures are more relaxed in their expectations, and more forgiving of people who deviate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tightness Scale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So for example, you might have been asked, how appropriate is it to curse in the bank or kiss in a public park, or eat or read a newspaper in a classroom? And we were able to derive scores of how constrained, in general situations, they are, versus how much they have latitude in different countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the cultures that are quite tight in our sample include places like Singapore, Japan, Pakistan,&#8221; Gelfand says. &#8220;Whereas many loose societies include countries like New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The abstract from the paper is a little harder to parse:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With data from 33 nations, we &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/n0yaIvVexf8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper in Science, Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study, is making the media rounds. Here&#8217;s NPR:<br \/>\n&#8230;The idea for this study really dates to the 1960s. Back then, an anthropologist decided to evaluate a few doze&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,913,8,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-cultural-differences","category-culture","category-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41670,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41073\/revisions\/41670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}