MARK 462 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culture Change, Individualism, Masculinity
9 Feb 2018
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In a sense culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another. behaviour in particular situations desirable justifies and form the bedrock of a culture: norms include: What determines a culture: the values and norms of a culture evolve over time, determinants include, religion, political and economic philosophies, education, language, social structure. In many asian societies, the group is the primary unit of social organization: discourages job switching between firms, encourages lifetime employment systems (can be good or bad. May increase group cohesiveness, but decrease creativity: leads to cooperation in solving business problems, might also suppress individual creativity and initiative. Caste system: closed system of stratification in which social position is determined by the family into which a person is born. Class system: form of open social stratification: position a person has by birth can be change through achievement or luck, the significance attached to social strata in business contacts.
