Contact between cultures: A historical perspective Contact between cultures The world has a lot of cultures and all the cultures are different. Many cultures come into contact with each other throughout history. Long time ago‚ many European navigators used to navigate across the world to locate new areas. Once an area is located‚ they would use it for settlement where they discover the riches of these areas and eventually‚ these experiences led to set up European colonies around these areas. Moreover
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Culture:- Culture is one of the most important concepts of social science. It is a unique possession of man. Only man in born and brought up in a cultural environment. It is a very broad term that includes in itself all our works of life‚our modes of behavior‚our philosophies and ethics‚ our morals‚ manners‚ our customs and traditions. Definitions:- 1.B.Malinowski defined culture “cumulative creation of man.” 2.Graham Wallas‚ culture as an accumulation of thoughts values and objects‚ it
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Scientists define culture as the total life way of a people‚ the social legacy the individual acquires from his group and can be regarded as that part of the environment that is the creation of man. Culture is what would make you feel shame or guilty. Culture manifests in beliefs‚ values‚ myths‚ legends‚ icons‚ language‚ dress traditions‚ customs‚ what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior‚ and even its unwritten rules in a particular area or group of persons. An example of how culture manifests itself
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CULTURE: The system of shared beliefs‚ values‚ customs‚ behaviors‚ and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another‚ and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. LAYERS OF CULTURE People even within the same culture carry several layers of
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Culture in organisational change Culture of different countries: Hofstede (1980) and his power distance rating. Nestle – have offices in Switzerland and the Phillipines‚ and need to implement changes from top down in the Phillipines compared to Switzerland – as there is a high power distance (Hofstede 1980) so the staff would not take note of the changes if it was not communicated from Management NHS – trying to implement similar culture to Virginia Mason‚ which is based on the Toyota Production
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Header: Culture Michael Salter 8 January 2013 Culture Grantham University Abstract: What if you was in the Military and you was the boss in your section and you gotten a Muslim in your section that don’t understand nothing that goes on in your section‚ so the first sergeant tell you that you would have to sit down with him and explain everything to him/her would you be able to do it‚ you should that what you in the military for to meet different people and to learn their culture. The
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Introduction The boundaries between countries become less obvious and important today‚ people getting much closer than ever before. The whole world seems united into a single unit‚ and these changes are all brought by “Globalization”. International organization are also one of the products which produced by globalization. Working within a multi-national firm‚ it is unavoidable to work with people speaking different language‚ living with different culture. These cultural differences are always the main sources
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Culture Shock Amanda SOC/120 July 24‚ 2013 Robert Bruce Culture Shock If I was visiting and studying the Yanomamo I would have went in with an open mind and tried to adapt to their way of life as well as I could. I do not think there is really a sufficient way to prepare yourself for a culture shock because you will always go in the situation without knowing everything about that culture. For instance my sister in law explained to me what it was like on her cruise to Jamaica and how
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managers a framework which allows comparisons between cultures which is useful in predicting behaviour and reactions of different cultural groups. However‚ with globalisation criticisms of the comparative models have become more pronounced. Cultures do not signify a nation and today’s multi-national corporations do belong to a specific country or culture. The comparative model uses nation state as a unit of analysing cultures and assumes that a culture is contained with the geographical boundaries
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non-agricultural use of the term "culture" re-appeared in modern Europe in the 17th century referring to the betterment or refinement of individuals‚ especially through education. During the 18th and 19th century it came to refer more frequently to the common reference points of whole peoples‚ and discussion of the term was often connected to national aspirations or ideals. Some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. In the 20th century‚ "culture" emerged as a central concept
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