Michele Gelfand on Social Norms

About Michele Gelfand on Social Norms

Living in a loosely regulated society, the very term “social norms” can be vaguely threatening, as if these norms are a threat to freedom always lurking on the periphery. But cultural psychologist Michele J. Gelfand says norms are not the enemy – they are one of our most important inventions. “Culture,” she says, “is this set of values, norms, and assumptions about the world that we’re socialized into from the time we’re babies. We follow social norms and we need social norms to navigate. It’s really an incredible human invention that helps us predict each other’s behavior and coordinate on la

Publisher

Becky Ryan

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2021

Latest episode

3 Jun 2021