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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers : How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World by Michele Gelfand (2018, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-101501152939
ISBN-139781501152931
eBay Product ID (ePID)242867377
Product Key Features
Book TitleRule Makers, Rule Breakers : How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Psychology, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year2018
GenreSocial Science, Psychology
AuthorMichele Gelfand
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-010275
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Dazzling . . . When people don't abide by socially expected rules, families, businesses, and whole societies splinter apart. But is there a downside to following the rules too closely? Read Rule Makers, Rule Breakers to find out." --Peter Turchin, author of Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth, "A valuable lens for decoding the nature of our cultural conflicts and an intriguing new tool for solving them." --Colin Woodard, Winner of the George Polk Award, Pulitzer finalist, and author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, "Brightly written . . . Gelfand offers many intriguing observations . . . A useful and engaging take on human behavior." --Kirkus Reviews, "Completely fascinating . . . [Gelfand] reveals how political divides, happiness and suicide rates, and the coexistence of crime and creativity can all be traced to a fundamental but neglected dimension of social norms. You'll never look at a workplace, a country, or a family the same way again." --Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg, "An engaging writer with intellectual range. [Gelfand] sparkles most when diving into evolutionary anthropology to make sense of long-term patterns...This is interesting stuff." -- New York Times Book Review, "Offers a powerful new way of seeing the world. Gelfand's deceptively simple thesis becomes increasingly compelling as her research unfolds across politics, class, and organizational behavior. Best of all, she provides a new toolkit for change." --Anne Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America, former director of Policy Planning for the State Department, and author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, "A fantastic book, academically anchored yet also fun to read and filled with practical implications. Its beauty derives from the breadth of its insight as Gelfand focuses in to illuminate, in succession, countries, states, corporations, groups and individuals. How many books pull off the feat of connecting clocks on city streets, to merger and acquisition outcomes, to groups that can both execute and explore? What an achievement!" --Michael L. Tushman, coauthor of Winning Through Innovation and Lead and Disrupt, "A must-read book that will fundamentally change the way you look at the world, particularly at our bewildering cultural moment . . . You will emerge a smarter, broader person, with a deeper, more informed perspective for thinking and talking about the issues that consume us all." --Todd Kliman, Winner of the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award and author of The Wild Vine, "Everyone should read this book! . . . It is rare that one overarching principle can explain so much, but Michele Gelfand nails it with her brilliant analysis of how tightly or loosely people adhere to social norms. In a fascinating narrative full of entertaining examples, she illuminates and explains this distinction, and by so doing increases our understanding of cultural conflict, the partisan divide, organizational success, happiness, creativity, and much more." --Timothy D. Wilson, author of Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By, "A particularly timely analysis for our current Age of Anxiety and uncertainty, where people and nations no longer feel confident in what the next generation and near future will bring." --Scott Atran, cofounder of the Center for the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts at Oxford University, and Research Director in Anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research, "Brilliant . . . Gelfand's findings, which are backed by massive empirical evidence, go far to explain why the people of different countries have different worldviews." --Ronald F. Inglehart, Director of the World Values Survey and author of Cultural Evolution, "Gelfand has done much to unravel the mysteries of human motivation." --Robert Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion, "This brilliant book is full of well-documented insights that will change the way you look at yourself and at the world around you. Gelfand presents a wealth of scientific evidence with a light touch that has the reader eager to know what comes next. I can't think of anyone who won't learn something important from this book." -- Barry Schwartz, bestselling author of The Paradox of Choice , Practical Wisdom , and Why We Work, "Remarkable. Not just an enlightening book but a game-changing one. By uncovering the inner workings of tight and loose cultures, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers suddenly makes sense of the puzzling behavior we see all around us--in colleagues, family, and even ourselves." --Carol Dweck, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, "A brilliant and timely book . . . Michele Gelfand has exposed a universal fault line running beneath nations, states, organizations, and even families. Cultures that face threat and uncertainty seek order and precision. Cultures with firmer footings revel in ambiguity and risk taking. This idea, at once so simple and so powerful, will forever change how you see the world." --Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, "If you're going to read one book this year to better understand the world's problems and what can be done to solve them, Gelfand's masterpiece should be it." --Alon Tal, author of The Land Is Full and founder of the Israeli Union for Environmental Defense, "A fascinating and profound book by one of psychology's most creative researchers. The well-chosen facts and findings about different cultures will make you alternately laugh, nod, and moan--and make you eager to read more. Beautifully written, packed with scientific facts and findings, this important book celebrates and explains the diversity of human culture. It emphasizes a key dimension of cultural difference: Some cultures pressure everyone to follow the same rules, while almost anything goes in other cultures--and Gelfand carefully and impressively lays out the pluses and minuses of both types. Anyone interested in the deep mysteries of human life and cultural diversity will find this book a rich source of information and a thought-provoking challenge to common assumptions. It's quite possibly this year's best book on culture." --Roy F. Baumeister, bestselling coauthor of Willpower and author of The Cultural Animal, "Smart, provocative, and very entertaining . . . Gelfand argues that the tendency to devise and abide by rules, or, alternatively, push behavioral limits is the fundamental distinction between human societies." -- Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology, Yale University, author of Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, "A thought-provoking look at the contours of modern tribalism--one that uses a deceptively simple dividing line: the split between "tight" and "loose" cultures and personalities." --Dante Chinni, coauthor of The Patchwork Nation and Director of the American Communities Project at George Washington University, "Fantastic . . . Its beauty derives from the breadth of its insight as Gelfand focuses in to illuminate, in succession, countries, states, corporations, groups and individuals." --Michael L. Tushman, coauthor of Winning Through Innovation and Lead and Disrupt, "Despite their great importance, the hidden factors that influence whether people comply with what is expected of them or write their own script has long gone underappreciated. With this book, Michele Gelfand has done much to unravel the mysteries of human motivation. Anyone interested in how social norms--and, therefore, people -- operate will be grateful for her compelling analysis." --Robert Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion, "Fascinating and profound . . . It's quite possibly this year's best book on culture." --Roy F. Baumeister, bestselling coauthor of Willpower and author of The Cultural Animal, "Extremely important . . . Gelfand has identified and explored a hugely significant aspect of culture that accounts for why and when we fall into step with a group, or alternatively, set off on our own path." --Richard Nisbett, author of The Geography of Thought: How Westerners and Asians Think Differently...and Why, "Brilliant . . . full of well-documented insights that will change the way you look at yourself and at the world around you." -- Barry Schwartz, bestselling author of The Paradox of Choice , Practical Wisdom , and Why We Work
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SynopsisIn Rule Makers, Rule Breakers celebrated cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand takes us on an epic journey through human cultures, offering a startling new view of the world and ourselves. With a mix of brilliantly conceived studies and surprising on-the-ground discoveries, she shows that much of the diversity in the way we think and act derives from a key difference--how tightly or loosely we adhere to social norms. Why are clocks in Germany so accurate while those in Brazil are frequently wrong? Why do New Zealand's women have the highest number of sexual partners? Why are "Red" and "Blue" States really so divided? Why was the Daimler-Chrysler merger ill-fated from the start? Why is the driver of a Jaguar more likely to run a red light than the driver of a plumber's van? Why does one spouse prize running a "tight ship" while the other refuses to "sweat the small stuff?" In search of a common answer, Gelfand has spent two decades conducting research in more than fifty countries. Across all age groups, family variations, social classes, businesses, states and nationalities, she's identified a primal pattern that can trigger cooperation or conflict. Her fascinating conclusion: behavior is highly influenced by the perception of threat. With an approach that is consistently riveting, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers thrusts many of the puzzling attitudes and actions we observe into sudden and surprising clarity.
LC Classification NumberGN493.3.G45 2018
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Rule makers and rule breakers
I enjoyed learning how we are influenced by the ideology of the leadersVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
