Author : Stuart Hirschberg
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 9780618866809
Patterns Across Cultures explores topics of narration, description, exemplification, process analysis, argument, problem solving, as well as others through the lens of multicultures.
Author : David W. Augsburger
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664256098
Believing not only that conflict is inevitable in human life but that it is essential and can be quite constructive, Augsburger proposes a shift to an "international" approach in resolving conflict. Augsburger focuses on interpersonal and group conflicts and provides a comparison of conflict patterns within and among various cultures.
Author : Edward C. Stewart
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0983955832
A fully revised edition of the seminal classic This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns by introducing new cross-cultural comparisons and drawing on recent reseach on value systems, perception psychology, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication. Beginning with a discussion of the issues relative to contact between people of different cultures, the authors examine the nature of cultural assumptions and values as a framework for cross-cultural analysis. They then analyze the human perceptual process, consider the influence of language on culture, and discuss nonverbal behavior. Central to the book is an analysis of American culture constructed along four dimentions: form of activity, form of social relations, perceptions of the world, and perception of the self. American cultural traits are isolated out, analyzed, and compared with parallel characteristics of other cultures. Finally, the cultural dimentions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction are examined.
Author : Richard R. Gesteland
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788763002387
The theme of this new edition of Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is CHANGE. First of all, cultures change. In markets around the world, business behavior is constantly evolving, impelled by generational shifts, improvements in education, and (especially) increasing exposure to the world marketplace. That is why all of the book's 43 'Negotiator Profiles' have been thoroughly updated, with new cases and fresh examples added. In addition to the change in culture, international managers' challenges have changed too. For example, just a few years ago, participants at global management seminars around the world were mainly interested in how to communicate and negotiate with overseas partners. But, they now find that their toughest challenges are how to manage overseas subsidiaries, strategic alliances, and international partnerships. To reflect these new realities, the book's time-tested framework for understanding cross-cultural negotiating behavior has been expanded to include a wide variety of practical pointers on managing in today's global marketplace. This fifth edition is important for everyone involved with global management, whether student or manager, because cultures and business challenges do change. The book is an essential survival guide for doing business in cultures other than one's own.
Author : Michael Hann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1472539001
Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry: The Cultural Significance of Structure investigates how pattern and symbol has functioned in visual arts, exploring how connections and comparisons in geometrical pattern can be made across different cultures and how the significance of these designs has influenced craft throughout history. The book features illustrative examples of symbol and pattern from a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, from Byzantine, Persian and Assyrian design, to case studies of Japanese and Chinese patterns. Looking at each culture's specific craft style, Hann shows how the visual arts are underpinned with a strict geometric structure, and argues that understanding these underlying structures enables us to classify and compare data from across cultures and historical periods. Richly illustrated with both colour and black and white images, and with clear, original commentary, the book enables students, practitioners, teachers and researchers to explore the historical and cultural significance of symbol and pattern in craft and design, ultimately displaying how a geometrical dialogue in design can be established through history and culture.
Author : P. Christopher Earley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804743126
In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves in new cultures. Strategies for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical for managing business. In this book, the authors develop the idea of cultural intelligence and examine its three essential facets: cognition, the ability to develop patterns from cultural cues; motivation, the desire and ability to engage others; and behavior, the capability to act in accordance with cognition and motivation. They explore the fundamental nature of cultural intelligence and its relationship to other frameworks of intelligence.-Back cover.
Author : Ruth Benedict
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429620276
This book was originally published in 1935. For some years past the scientific study of primitive peoples has experimented in a variety of directions for new methods of investigation. Criticism of the comparative method, of which Sir James Frazer is recognized as the foremost exponent all the world over, has been directed mainly against the fragmentary character of its evidence when torn from its context. In this book Dr Benedict offers an alternative method of approach. The aim of the investigator, she maintains, should be the discovery in the diversity of cultures of the 'configuration' of each - that is the cultural drive in group and individual which determines the characteristic reaction to stimulus in any and every situation in life.
Author : Maurice Bazin
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Ethnoscience
ISBN : 9780943451442
Author : Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Publisher : Academic Internet Pub Incorporated
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781616549749
Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all of the testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events from the textbook are included. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides give all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Accompanys: 9780618866809 .
Author : Ruth Benedict
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
A study of the civilization of the Zuni Indians, the native of Dubu, and the Kawakiutl Indians.
