Computational Modeling of Culture’s Consequences

Hofstede, Gert Jan; Jonker, Catholijn M.; Verwaart, Tim

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18345-4_10

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“…Early research by American scholars sought to explain Italy's alleged underdevelopment as the combined effect of negative local values such as familism and the absence of values believed to be the backbone of American global hegemony such as enterprise (Banfield, 1958;Putnam, 1993). In a related fashion, value theories from organizational studies (Hofstede, 2003), political science (Inglehart & Welzel, 2005), and social psychology (Schwartz, 2012) emphasize cultural diversity between the individualism of Western English-speaking countries and Italy's collectivism, especially in areas such as religion and family relations; theories that are echoed by several Italy-based sociological studies (Buzzi et al, 2007;Cipriani, 1992).…”

Section: "Good Morning World!" the Articulation Of Values In A Global...mentioning

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“It’s Like the Fridge Magnet of the Internet”: Platform Aesthetics, Generational Taste, and the Cross-Cultural Valuation of Good Morning Memes

Trillò

2023

Social Media + Society

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This article investigates the values expressed by good morning memes—an understudied subgenre of social media inspiration featuring a “good day” wish—and the criteria that users from different countries and generational groups adopt to evaluate them. Expressed values were detected through a content analysis of 414 memes in English and Italian, while insights about evaluation were derived from 20 semistructured interviews with American and Italian social media users. Analysis revealed cross-cultural divergences in the core values conveyed in the two subsets, with self-efficacy foregrounded by English memes and met with humorous skepticism by Italian memes. Interview data revealed a cross-generational cleavage in the interpretation of the genre based on communicative values, with younger users negatively evaluating the memes as inauthentic due to a lack of creativity and older users appreciating them as genuine attempts to cultivate affiliation between users. Such generational distinctions emerged as crucial to the establishment of a three-way connection between an imagined audience of older users, content types framed as kitsch such as good morning memes, and specific platforms, especially Facebook. The article concludes that such heuristic associations infuse the ways in which people visually imagine social media platforms, coalescing into recognizable platform aesthetics: notions of what platforms look like based on who we believe inhabits them.

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“It’s Like the Fridge Magnet of the Internet”: Platform Aesthetics, Generational Taste, and the Cross-Cultural Valuation of Good Morning Memes

Trillò

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Like most of Latin American countries, Costa Rica is considered as a collectivistic society (Hofstede, 1980, 2022). In collectivistic countries, trust, loyalty, personal relations, and networking are essential.…”

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“…As shown, most of the studies done in these lines of research have been conducted in Europe and North America. Less research has been conducted in more collectivist non‐industrialised cultures (Henrich et al, 2010; Hofstede, 1980; Triandis, 1995). According to these authors, culture‐specific influences related to collectivism and individualism in the interpretation of sexist ideology must be considered.…”

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I'm just joking! Perceptions of sexist humour and sexist beliefs in a Latin American context

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Previous research has stated a relationship between sexist ideologies and humour appreciation. However, most research has been done in North America and Europe. In the present study, we aimed to approach in an exploratory way to the social perceptions of sexist humour in Costa Rica. Data was gathered through an online survey, participants (N = 323; 220 females) completed measures to characterise expressions of sexist humour. The main measures included perceived funniness, frequency and means of exposure, and perceived offensiveness, as well as completing the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI). Overall, previous exposure to this kind of humour was remarkably high. No significant differences were observed between women's and men's perceptions of the frequency, means and places of exposure, but emotional and behavioural reactions to sexist humour were gender‐based. Women reported higher displeasure, more confrontation and felt angrier and more offended than men when exposed to this type of humour. Data support existing evidence of the relationship with sexist ideology. Specifically, hostile sexism was found to be a significant predictor of perceived funniness and offensiveness of the sexist jokes. An interaction effect between hostile sexism and the sex of participants was found, showing that as hostile sexism increased, perceived offensiveness decreased, but more rapidly for men. Results are discussed considering the practical implications and limitations, as well as the need for more research in the Latin American context.

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“…Studies on cultural values have been conducted on an aggregated country level or individual level (Morris, 2014; Schwartz, 2014). Hofstede (1980) proposed basic dimensions of culture for comparing human values. Values exist in the deepest layer of culture.…”

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Cultural values, system justification, meritocratic beliefs, and evaluations of governments' performance in handling the COVID‐19 crisis

Zhai

2023

Asian J of Social Psycho

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System justification and meritocratic beliefs legitimize the status quo of economic, social, and political arrangements, and may correlate with favourable evaluations of governments' performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study furthers research on this topic by examining (1) the cultural value antecedents of system justification and meritocratic beliefs, and (2) the differential effects of these on attitudes toward ingroups and outgroups from an intergroup perspective. The results show that collectivist values positively predict system justification and meritocratic beliefs, whereas a similar effect was not observed for individualist values. As hypothesized, system justification motivation was positively associated with favourable evaluation of the Chinese government (an ingroup). By contrast, system justification and meritocratic beliefs were negatively associated with evaluation of the American government (an outgroup). We discussed the implications for understandings of the cultural value bases of system justification and meritocratic beliefs, and the relevance of the lens of intergroup relations in studying those beliefs.

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Computational Modeling of Culture’s Consequences

Cited by 28 publications

References 18 publications

“It’s Like the Fridge Magnet of the Internet”: Platform Aesthetics, Generational Taste, and the Cross-Cultural Valuation of Good Morning Memes

“It’s Like the Fridge Magnet of the Internet”: Platform Aesthetics, Generational Taste, and the Cross-Cultural Valuation of Good Morning Memes

I'm just joking! Perceptions of sexist humour and sexist beliefs in a Latin American context

Cultural values, system justification, meritocratic beliefs, and evaluations of governments' performance in handling the COVID‐19 crisis

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