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The Stone Soup Experiment: Why Cultural Boundaries Persist

The Stone Soup Experiment: Why Cultural Boundaries Persist Deborah Downing Wilson, The Stone Soup Experiment: Why Cultural Boundaries Persist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 170 pp. Social scientists rarely have the opportunity to conduct large-scale experiments, and, when they do, this type of research is often challenged on the grounds of reliability, ethics, or both. For example, the famous experiments of Stanley Milgram (1961) on obedience to authority and Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment (1971) have evoked serious ethical and methodological concerns. The same set of problems besets the equally celebrated Muzafer Sherif's "Robbers Cave" experiment (1954). Sherif's study aimed to show how easily one can generate conflict in a situation where individuals are assigned randomly to competitive groups. Deborah Downing Wilson's book originated as an attempt, at least partially, to replicate Sherif's original study in the context of a university course Published by Duke University Press Lit tle Rev iews Common Knowledge on cross-cultural communication. Wilson and her collaborators divided forty randomly selected students who registered for the course into two profoundly different groups--the communitarian "Stone Soup Tribe" and the individualist "Fair Trade Cartel." While the first group was constructed as a benevolent matriarchy focused on storytelling, spirituality, and sharing, the second was defined http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

The Stone Soup Experiment: Why Cultural Boundaries Persist

Common Knowledge , Volume 23 (2) – Apr 1, 2017

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Deborah Downing Wilson, The Stone Soup Experiment: Why Cultural Boundaries Persist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 170 pp. Social scientists rarely have the opportunity to conduct large-scale experiments, and, when they do, this type of research is often challenged on the grounds of reliability, ethics, or both. For example, the famous experiments of Stanley Milgram (1961) on obedience to authority and Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment (1971) have evoked serious ethical and methodological concerns. The same set of problems besets the equally celebrated Muzafer Sherif's "Robbers Cave" experiment (1954). Sherif's study aimed to show how easily one can generate conflict in a situation where individuals are assigned randomly to competitive groups. Deborah Downing Wilson's book originated as an attempt, at least partially, to replicate Sherif's original study in the context of a university course Published by Duke University Press Lit tle Rev iews Common Knowledge on cross-cultural communication. Wilson and her collaborators divided forty randomly selected students who registered for the course into two profoundly different groups--the communitarian "Stone Soup Tribe" and the individualist "Fair Trade Cartel." While the first group was constructed as a benevolent matriarchy focused on storytelling, spirituality, and sharing, the second was defined

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