Michael Suk-Young Chwe is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
发表于2024-12-24
Rational Ritual 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 社会学 政治 博弈论 【事业】 美国 自我启发 经济学 社会科学
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.
从博弈论角度深入探讨了各种仪式典礼、媒体事件背后的原理,作者认为,这些活动的目的都是要创造“共同知识”,而共同知识是解决“协调问题”的不二法门。 创造共同知识需要信息的周知。借助于各种仪式、典礼、高曝光的媒体活动等,我们可以让一条信息被所有人知道。可以说,文化软因素不知不觉影响着我们的理性决定。 强关系有助于协调集体行为
评分很有趣的概念,延展度也很宽。但是举的例子太过时,基本都集中在90年代,尤其是没拿我大天朝的信息管制举例真是太可惜了:)
评分很有趣的概念,延展度也很宽。但是举的例子太过时,基本都集中在90年代,尤其是没拿我大天朝的信息管制举例真是太可惜了:)
评分很有趣的概念,延展度也很宽。但是举的例子太过时,基本都集中在90年代,尤其是没拿我大天朝的信息管制举例真是太可惜了:)
评分很有趣的概念,延展度也很宽。但是举的例子太过时,基本都集中在90年代,尤其是没拿我大天朝的信息管制举例真是太可惜了:)
Rational Ritual 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书