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The Stone Soup Experiment. Why Cultural Boundaries Persist.
Deborah Downing Wilson
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Description for The Stone Soup Experiment. Why Cultural Boundaries Persist.
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
The Stone Soup Experiment is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them can be dismantled. 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 ... Read more
The Stone Soup Experiment is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them can be dismantled. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226289809
SKU
V9780226289809
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About Deborah Downing Wilson
Deborah Downing Wilson is an instructor in the department of communication at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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