On 03-Jul-11 10:01 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: >> 2) A collective understanding that "what I say" and "what I do" are >> essentially disjoint sets. > > How does one test this? I think though that this is the heart of the > issue, that it's actually cultural - a shared set of cultural norms, > though that simply begs the question. Where do/did these norms come > from?
Great question. I'm not sure. >> 2a) A corollary to the above is the lack of incentive to enforce various >> _stated_ norms around appropriate behaviour such as crowding instead of >> queueing. > > If this is true we should be able to identify the incentives that are > present in other societies that do enforce those norms. What do you > propose as the incentives? I suggest instead that this is another > question begging "cultural" norm. It would be interesting to gather > observations as to which societies crowd, and which queue, see if > there is a pattern and extract a hypothesis from that. I spent the last 30 min digging into social psychology journals, but am getting too distracted by other interesting stuff to find anything directly relevant. :) Do you also want to try? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
