Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rational RitualCondition: NewEAN: 9780691158280ISBN: 9780691158280Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/28/2013Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 198gAuthor: Michael Suk-Young ChweLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Culture, Coordination, and Common KnowledgeISBN-10: 0691158282Description: Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, knowledge of the knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. For instance, people watching the Super Bowl know that many others are seeing precisely what they see and that those people know in turn that many others are also watching.This creates common knowledge, and advertisers selling products that depend on consensus are willing to pay large sums to gain access to it. Remarkably, a great variety of rituals and ceremonies, such as formal inaugurations, work in much the same way. By using a rational-choice argument to explain diverse cultural practices, Chwe argues for a close reciprocal relationship between the perspectives of rationality and culture. He illustrates how game theory can be applied to an unexpectedly broad spectrum of problems, while showing in an admirably clear way what game theory might hold for scholars in the social sciences and humanities who are not yet acquainted with it. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Rational Ritual
Title: Rational Ritual
EAN: 9780691158280
ISBN: 9780691158280
Release Date: 04/28/2013
Release Year: 2013
Subtitle: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
ISBN-10: 0691158282
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: RATIONAL Ritual : Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Sociology / General, History & Theory, General, Ethnopsychology, Social Psychology, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.5 in
Features: Revised
Item Weight: 7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
