US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron?

Cross-Cultural Piagetian Studies: What Can They Tell Us?/

Image Reproduction: An Oxymoron

In our daily lives dealing with images, we have the mental notion that we are reproducing an original. This notion is generally helpful in guiding image and colour processing decisions, but often it turns into a hindrance when the words we use lead to artifi cial constraints that we impose onto the problem. This paper describes some scenarios in which a broader defi nition of the word ‘reproduc...

Does Cultural Capital Still Classify Us?

Bourdieu’s Distinction, which was first published in 1979, is one of the most cited and read works of sociology written in French—which does not, however, mean that it is always read correctly. Since its appearance, the book, which was as original in its substance as in its methodology, has met with a mixed reception, eliciting dithyrambic praise as well as acerbic attacks from scholars and jou...

Cultural heritage training in the US military

Cultural competence is a vital component of many missions in today's military. Cultural competence enables one to further a mission, save resources, and save lives. Conversely, a lack of cultural competence may bring about challenges to mission completion, requirement for more resources, waste of resources, and destruction of lives. Cultural competence involves many components. One particular c...

Cross-Cultural Studies

The area of cross-cultural management and organization studies has been dominated by Hofstede’s (1980a) seminal work on cultural values dimensions. Despite much recent criticism, and perhaps because of it, he remains the most cited author in this area. It is difficult to start any account in this field without reference to his work, and this is certainly the starting point here. This chapter fi...