Cultural Analysis: Towards Cross-cultural UnderstandingCopenhagen Business School Press DK, 2006 - 345 páginas With internationalization, the world is becoming smaller and the opportunity to meet people from other countries and cultures is becoming more common, providing the need for cooperation, shared knowledge, and cross-border trade. Individual cultures tend to understand themselves best and base their understanding of the world and its peoples on ideas they each have come to believe irrespective of reality, and thus make it difficult to reach a proper understanding of other cultures. This book considers intercultural understanding and co-action, partly by means of general insights into the concept of culture and the dimensions which bring about cultural differences, and partly as a methodology to analyze a certain culture - whether one's own or others'. This leads towards an understanding of cultural complexity and cultural differences among people. The book provides a discussion of a number of ethical issues, which almost invariably will arise when people meet and co-act across cultural boundaries. Cultural Analysis offers a theoretical/abstract proposal for cultural understanding, intercultural plurality, and complexity. |
Contenido
FOREWORD | 11 |
B Academic approach | 17 |
THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE | 32 |
B Man and his relationship to nature | 38 |
The culture and the individual being | 48 |
E Outline for an operational culture perception | 56 |
THE SEMISTATIC CULTURAL ANALYSIS | 65 |
B The vertical culture dimension essential culture layers | 78 |
B The coexistence of cultures or the culture categories | 167 |
Synthesized culture complexity | 176 |
B Three different intentions for intercultural interaction | 190 |
SUBJECTIVITY IN INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION | 208 |
The conscious cultural composition | 225 |
A An empirical model of analysis the archetypal phase model | 232 |
B Concluding analysis of understanding | 249 |
The unintentional cultural influence concluding remarks | 257 |
The semistatic cultural understanding as a complex | 98 |
B The culturechanging dynamics changes | 104 |
The culturedynamic complexity | 151 |
THE CULTURE RELATIVITY AND | 161 |
Concluding strategy considerations the culture actors scope of action | 276 |
Closing remarks | 282 |
A universal culture or the perpetual search for la culture | 299 |
Términos y frases comunes
actual cultural basic basis of assessment change-initiating factors chapter characterised Clifford Geertz concept of culture connection contents core culture cultural analysis cultural composition culture actor culture category culture change culture elements culture layers culture relativism culture segments culture's Danish deeper degree of homogeneity degree of integration Denmark different cultures dilemma emics empirical cultural environment ethical etics example existing field trip focal culture Forlag fundamental world conception Geert Hofstede Geertz given culture Greenland groups of persons Gullestrup Gyldendal human individual culture insight instance intentional cultural influence intercultural co-action intercultural interaction Inuit Kirsten Hastrup knowledge foundation København level of programme London manifest culture Marvin Harris means mental programme modern industrial nature observed culture organisational original source Oslo P.CC DH P.CC values Paulo Freire perceived perception Politiken population predominantly problems reality relations relevant Samoan significance situation social structures subcultures theories tion ture value-neutral cultural understanding vertical culture dimension village