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Fourcultures - the most popular posts of 2009
Many thanks to everyone who’s read these pages over the year that’s now ending. Fourcultures is now being read more than 2,000 times a month. And just in case you missed them, the most pop… more →
Fourcultures
Fourcultures - the most popular posts of 2009
wrote 2 days ago: Many thanks to everyone who’s read these pages over the year that’s now ending. Fourcult … more →
Which of my identities takes precedence?
wrote 4 weeks ago: Mort recently asked the following: Where does cultural cognition reside?Is it within the individual … more →
Fortify your group with religious belief! Homing in on the God Gene
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wrote 1 month ago: “Groups fortified by religious belief would have prevailed over those that lacked it, and genes that … more →
Do genes drive culture? New developments in culture-gene coevolutionary theory
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wrote 1 month ago: A recently published research paper lends support to the idea that genes and culture influence one … more →
#approvalmatrix - fourfold typologies make it to Twitter
wrote 1 month ago: Here’s an older post from the Savage Minds anthropology blog about Mary Douglas’s grid-g … more →
Beyond the Culture of Discipline: What makes a Great company and how Cultural Theory can help
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wrote 1 month ago: D. Douglas Caulkins, an anthropologist at Grinnell College, Iowa, has used Grid-Group Cultural Theor … more →
How to be a better tipper: Learning and working the four cultures of tipping
wrote 1 month ago: Are you one of those people who are never quite sure whether it’s appropriate to leave a tip, or is … more →
The beetroot lesson - the politics of disgust
wrote 1 month ago: Martha Nussbaum has recently written a second book on the connections between visceral feelings of d … more →
The meaning of culture
wrote 1 month ago: When Glasgow won the honour of hosting the 1990 European City of Culture festival the joke was, Cult … more →
Ten Thousand Views of Fourcultures
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wrote 2 months ago: More views than Mount Fuji! Quite unheralded, this website has achieved a small milestone. Yes, one … more →
Flaw in the model
wrote 2 months ago: Alan Greenspan found a flaw in the model. What happens when you find a flaw in yours? Do you keep go … more →
How to deviate from climate change destruction - the case of the Great Barrier Reef
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wrote 3 months ago: A confession: I visited the Great Barrier Reef a couple of years ago and it was the most stunning ex … more →
Why Psychology fails to explain the Global Financial Crisis
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wrote 3 months ago: Listening to Australian historian Robert Mann’s recent lecture at the Melbourne Writers’ … more →
Why do we disagree about Climate Change?
wrote 3 months ago: In his foreword to a recent collection on the social construction of climate change, Nicholas Onuf w … more →
The decline and fall of declining and falling
wrote 3 months ago: Edward Gibbon made a famous claim in chapter 3 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E … more →
Accountability is the problem, now what’s the solution?
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wrote 3 months ago: Individualist social organisation operates on the assumption that accountability structures and meas … more →
Is Grid-Group cultural theory really a theory?
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wrote 3 months ago: It was a trick of course. Yesterday I used Grid-Group cultural theory to ‘predict’ the Fatalist view … more →
For my next trick I will try to understand Nicholas Taleb
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wrote 3 months ago: The writer/trader/professor Nicholas Taleb has been puzzling a number of commentators recently and G … more →
Still arguing about the facts on climate change?
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wrote 3 months ago: Geologist Ian Plimer, who has written a book opposing the idea of human-made climate change, has bac … more →
