Cultural change
Blog URL http://culture-mariusz.blogspot.com
Located Pasadena, California USA
Tags Culture, politics, economy, development
The blog discusses culture, culture's influences in politics and economics, culture change, etc.
Latest Blog Posts
- cultural or social change? Is there a difference? on Jan 22, 2009
Let me begin with a quote from an old book on cultural change: “Culture change and social change must be distinguished. Where culture may be defined as prescriptions for living, society refers to the organized aggregate of people who follow these...
- Obama on values on Jan 22, 2009
I just received an email from Miguel Basanez pointing to an excellent excerpt from President Obama's speech. In all the interesting parts of the speech, these three sentences were easy to miss so here they are:“… those values upon which our succ...
- Gladwell’s Outliers once more on Jan 7, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell writes about the culture of hard work, but, I think, he is confusing hard work with work that is never-ending, meticulous, inescapable. That is also hard work, obviously, but of a different kind. The difference is between a sprint...
- The trouble with cultural variables on Jan 5, 2009
Last time I praised Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers: The Story of Success;” especially its parts on the role of culture. Today is time to take a different look and a different position. The book is still excellent, but the question is: is...
- Of Blind Chances, Hard Work, and Cultures on Jan 2, 2009
I believe it was Karl Marx who said that man forges his own destiny, but only within the circumstances he finds himself in. Malcolm Gladwell, in his latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success, is proving the point. Gladwell argues that there is m...
- Samuel Huntigton and America: a reflection on Jan 2, 2009
I learned about Samuel Huntington’s death from the Polish “Gazeta”. I used to work for that newspaper some years ago and have been following it since. It is interesting that a foreign newspaper reported the news quicker, by several hours, tha...
- Collier and Haas: Whether and How to Intervene on Dec 21, 2008
Just one more comment on Collier and his suggestion that military intervention could be the last (and effective) option to help the bottom billion. Fifteen years earlier, already after the first Gulf War, but before the Iraq intervention, Richard Ha...
