Some Dimensions of Intercultural Variation and Their Implication for Interpersonal Behavior

Abstract

A review of a broad literature suggested certain dimensions of cultural variation that influence social behavior. Table 1 shows these dimensions. Table 2 shows how these dimensions are related to higher order dimensions of cultural complexity, modernity, and modern complexity. The proposed theoretical framework suggests numerous hypotheses that require empirical investigations, suggests how diverse publications can be integrated, proposes ways to develop episodes of social interaction that can be used in culture assimilators that will not focus on particular cultures but train a person to think about the range of variations in the dimensions of cultural variation that are likely to be important in interaction with persons from other cultures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA101668

Entities

People

  • Harry C. Triandis

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anthropology
  • Commerce
  • Crime
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Ethnography
  • Families (Human)
  • Hispanics
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • North America
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Students
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design