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A Relational View on Culture and Transculturality

In: A Relational View on Cultural Complexity

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  • Gert Jan Hofstede

    (Wageningen University
    UARM, North-West University)

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The concept of “Transculturality”, used often in this volume, seems to carry a promise of bridging cultural differences in groups. In order to investigate whether this could be so, I want to add my thoughts on the causation of culture to the debate. I will argue in this piece that everyday interactions between people have shaped human cultures over time and are still doing so. I will also indicate briefly how this happens, by presenting basic relational drivers of individuals, elementary models of sociality across individuals and groups, and emergent patterns in groups and society. Then, I will consider the concept of transculturality from this theoretical perspective. We are cultural social animals; can we also be transcultural, what would that mean, and what would that require?

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  • Gert Jan Hofstede, 2023. "A Relational View on Culture and Transculturality," Relational Economics and Organization Governance, in: Julika Baumann Montecinos & Tobias Grünfelder & Josef Wieland (ed.), A Relational View on Cultural Complexity, pages 67-86, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:recchp:978-3-031-27454-1_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27454-1_4
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