is there any society where people are ostracised for not possessing difficult skills?
Depending on what you call âdifficultâ. I think you will try to fit in if 80%+ of your peers know the skill, but OTOH if 80%+ people know have the skill then is it âdifficultâ?
In gen pop I feel this way about driving carsâsome people hate it and have to deal with a lot of stress/âanxiety to learn this skills and although they could live without it. But living without it means they canât do some of the thingsâthey have less power.
Iâd say then the power motivation (increase the space of your action) could be lumped together with the economic one or form a separate one.
Similar skill like thisâlearning a language. In gen pop itâs seldom the case unless you live in a country where 3â4 people know a second language (sadly not the case in my country). But it afaik it worked in the past with some elite societes where people learned french (lingua franca) or greek or latin or something to fit in. Languages also increase the space of your actions (you can understand more by yourself, talk to more people etc.) so this again could be âpowerâ motivated.
Ok, I buy languageâI think indeed, for example in 19th century Russia learning French was a marker of âfitting inâ aristocracy, although it was not required for life. But I donât know if there is any such society anymore where some social group tends to learn some language for status reasons only.
Depending on what you call âdifficultâ. I think you will try to fit in if 80%+ of your peers know the skill, but OTOH if 80%+ people know have the skill then is it âdifficultâ?
In gen pop I feel this way about driving carsâsome people hate it and have to deal with a lot of stress/âanxiety to learn this skills and although they could live without it. But living without it means they canât do some of the thingsâthey have less power.
Iâd say then the power motivation (increase the space of your action) could be lumped together with the economic one or form a separate one.
Similar skill like thisâlearning a language. In gen pop itâs seldom the case unless you live in a country where 3â4 people know a second language (sadly not the case in my country). But it afaik it worked in the past with some elite societes where people learned french (lingua franca) or greek or latin or something to fit in. Languages also increase the space of your actions (you can understand more by yourself, talk to more people etc.) so this again could be âpowerâ motivated.
Ok, I buy languageâI think indeed, for example in 19th century Russia learning French was a marker of âfitting inâ aristocracy, although it was not required for life. But I donât know if there is any such society anymore where some social group tends to learn some language for status reasons only.