Culture

Quantitative and Formal Models of Culture
Quantitative techniques often try to answer one of three questions with respect to culture:
 * 1) What results if we assume people have particular cultural traits or norms?  What are the observable implications of the traits / norms, how do they shape societal outcomes?
 * 2) Why do particular cultural traits or norms exist?  How do they evolve over time?
 * 3) Empirically, what cultural traits / norms do people actually hold?

This page is (initially) devoted to questions 1 (the impact of culture/norms) and 2 (the causes of culture/norms)