Why Norwegians Don’t Have Their Pigs in the Forest: Illuminating Nordic ‘Co-operation’
| Autor: | Carsta Simon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Policy development
Behavioral patterns Nordic Model Human life 05 social sciences Norwegian language.human_language Co operation Competition (economics) 03 medical and health sciences Cooperation 0302 clinical medicine Political science language Selection (linguistics) General Earth and Planetary Sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Cooperative behavior Nordic model Positive economics Scandinavian culture 030217 neurology & neurosurgery General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Behavior and Social Issues |
| Popis: | Many situations in human life present choices between (a) alternatives beneficial to an individual and (b) alternatives that are less beneficial to the individual that would nevertheless be beneficial if chosen by many individuals. Choices of the latter alternative are generally considered cooperative. Taking the supposition that a lack of cooperation between and amongst societies lies behind many crises of the 21st century as its point of origin, the paper takes a two-step approach to shed light on the Nordic cultural-evolutionary puzzle of managing to maintain a dynamic equilibrium between competition and cooperation. First, the paper suggests regarding cooperation as a valuable temporally extended pattern of behavior that may be learned and maintained over an individual’s lifetime. Second, the paper examines how Norwegian and Swedish culture fosters a commitment to extended patterns of cooperative behavior. By means of interpreting successful Scandinavian cultural characteristics in the light of selection of behavior both during phylogeny and during ontogeny, the paper derives hypotheses about functional relations between behavioral and environmental events, which make for the success of the Nordic nations and which might inspire policy development in other countries. |
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