INTB 1209 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Collectivism, Geert Hofstede, Social Stratification
22 Mar 2016
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Cross culture literacy an understanding of how cultural differences across and within nations can affect the way business is practiced. The culture of a country can determine the costs of entering that country: cultures that are more receptive to the capitalistic way of doing business are cheaper while others that are not receptive are more expensive. Culture a system of values and norms that shared among a group of people and that when taken together constitute a design for living. Values abstract ideas about what a group believes to be good, right, and desirable. Norms social rules and guidelines that prescribe appropriate behavior in particular situations (divided into folkways and mores: folkways are the routine conventions of everyday life. Actions of little moral significance (dress code, good social manners, how people are expected to behave: mores are norms that seen as central to the functioning of a society and to its social life.
