Rational ritual [[electronic resource] ] : culture, coordination, and common knowledge / / Michael Suk-Young Chwe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465117203321
• Autore: Chwe Michael Suk-Young <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2001
• ISBN: 9786612303852; 1-282-30385-6; 1-4008-3113-X; 1-299-31178-4; 1-4008-4643-9
• Edizione: [With a New afterword by the author]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/2
• Soggetti: Knowledge, Sociology of; Cognition and culture; Collective behavior; Rites and ceremonies - Social aspects; Rational choice theory; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Applications -- 3. Elaborations -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendix. The Argument Expressed Diagrammatically -- References -- Afterword to the 2013 Edition -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.

2 / scritti di Massimiliano Martinelli

• Record Nr.: UNISANNIOIEI0119407
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Firenze, : F. Le Monnier, 1864
• Descrizione fisica: 467 p. ; 19 cm.
• Disciplina: 351
• Soggetti: ITALIA - AMMINISTRAZIONE PUBBLICA - ORDINAMENTO - SEC. 19
• Collocazione: D (AR) 14 988
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Festivals and Values : Music, Community Engagement and Organisational Symbolism / / by Waldemar Kuligowski, Marcin Poprawski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910766891003321
• Autore: Kuligowski Waldemar <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
• ISBN: 3-031-39752-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 pages)
• Collana: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action, , 2523-7314
• Disciplina: 780.78
• Soggetti: Ethnology; Cultural policy; Culture - Study and teaching; Social psychology; Semiotics; Sociocultural Anthropology; Cultural Policy and Politics; Cultural Studies; Cultural Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Festivals, between ritual sacrum and consumption profane. Definitions of festivals - from Durkheim and Mauss to event studies -- Researching Values and Festivals - critical analysis of techniques and research tools. Defining values relevance at festivals - Festivals as contact zones – case studies - festivalization of integration and difference -- From commercialized legend to community-based festival. The case study of Jarocin Festival -- Music festivals and local cultural ecosystems -- Cultural policy implications of the festivalization of values -- Music festivals and sustainability-oriented values -- Audience development practice and festivals’ mission statements -- Organizational symbolism of music festivals. Organizational formats for social integration and community engagement -- Festivals without festivals – Pandemic Time case studies -- The resilience of festivals and the loyalty of their audiences during pandemic/lockdowns -- Finale. Festivals and Values.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and ‘event-based culture’. It is based on academic research but written in a way relevant for cultural professionals – uniquely explaining the cultural power of festivals, and with original empirical research, the realities of organisation and management, and social and economic value. Dr Jonathan Vickery, Reader in Cultural Policy Studies and Director: Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick. This book discusses music festivals in the context of the specific values they convey. Today, music festivals are a permanent feature of national, regional and local cultural policies, a valuable asset in the tourism industry and a significant source of income for an industry that has been adversely affected by the steady decline in physical sales of music. For the audience, on the other hand, it is an opportunity to escape from everyday life, multi-sensory contact with art, an activity that stands for “full-body participation”– a cultural phenomenon that drags people out of their homes like no other. There is one common denominator linking the above-mentioned features of contemporary music festivals – namely the world of values. This is evident from the non-accidental locations, festivals spaces’ design, planning and the line-ups created consciously, with great care. The organisers’ “missions”, logos, and other symbolic organisational artefacts communicate specific values. These values are explicitly mentioned by artists and audiences: they can be easily identified in online forums and media reports; participant behaviour, festival “rituals” and additional festival programs are shaped on the basis of values, and cooperation is built between the festival and the local community. As the reader will quickly realize, numbers and statistics sit alongside descriptions and quotations in this book, and the organisers’ statements are accompanied by the opinions of academics, but above all the festival audience is given a voice – both through quotations and their drawings. This voice is by no means uniform, as it turned out that research into values was often transformed into a pretext for spinning tales about one’s life situation, one’s political preferences, and one’s understanding of freedom and responsibility. Memories were mixed with declarations, joy with regret, curses with dreams, prose with poetry. Thomas Pettitt was not wrong in noting that “Social history has learnt to appreciate festival as a valuable window on society and its structures”. The authors have tried to open all the windows available. Students and researchers in the fields of ; cultural anthropology, social psychology, folklore studies, comparative religion, sociology of culture, cultural policy, cultural history, and cultural management will find this book highly interesting.