A Relational View on Culture and Transculturality

Gert Jan Hofstede ()
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Gert Jan Hofstede: Wageningen University

A chapter in A Relational View on Cultural Complexity, 2023, pp 67-86 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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?

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27454-1_4

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