The Dissenter #108 Richard Shweder: Morality, Haidt's Moral Foundations, and Multiculturalism
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Dr. Richard Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago, US. He’s the author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology and Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology, and editor or co-editor of many books in the areas of cultural psychology, psychological anthropology and comparative human development. Dr. Shweder has been the recipient of many awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1985-86) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological Prize for his essay “Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally?”. (…) He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
In this episode, we talk about morality in its several dimensions (philosophical, cultural, evolutionary, psychological, anthropological). We also talk about Dr. Shweder’s three moral foundations (Autonomy, Community, Divinity), and how Jonathan Haidt contributed to their expansion. We also discuss Alan Fiske’s Relational Models, and what they are about. I ask Dr. Shweder to explain what is Cultural Psychology, and its objects of study in human societies. And we finish off by referring to multiculturalism, in what ways it might be problematic, and how to possibly tackle those issues.
Time Links:
01:23 What is morality?
09:37 Evolutionary and cultural perspectives on morality
16:49 Three moral foundations – Autonomy, Community, and Divinity
28:10 Is morality innate?
36:43 Jonathan Haidt’s Five Moral Foundations
46:34 Expanding the knowledge on the bases of our morality
54:32 Alan Fiske’s Relational Models – Communal Sharing, Authority Ranking, Equality Matching, Market Pricing
59:25 What is Cultural Psychology?
1:06:03 About cultural evolution
1:11:46 The political issue of multiculturalism
1:22:55 How to possibly solve the issue
1:33:44 Follow Dr. Shweder’s work!
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