The stone soup experiment : why cultural boundaries persist / Deborah Downing Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Deborah Downing, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Cultural relations.

Intergroup relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Intergroup relations.

Group identity--Cross-cultural studies.

Group identity.

Social interaction--Cross-cultural studies.

Social interaction.

Social psychology--Methodology.

Social psychology.

Psychology, Experimental.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 170 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

The Stone Soup Experiment is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups and out-groups and how quickly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them can be blurred. In a compulsively readable account, Deborah-Downing Wilson details a ten-week project in which forty university students were split into two different simulated cultures: the carefree Stoners and the market-driven Traders. Through their eyes we are granted intimate access to the very foundations of human society: how group identities are formed and what happens when opposing ones come into contact. A fascinating account of social experimentation, the book paints a vivid portrait of our deepest social tendencies and the powers they have over how we make friends and enemies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the romantic classroom

The inception

First encounters, first crimes

The justification

The unreconciliation

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226289779

022628977X

9780226289809

022628980X

OCLC:

904335542