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Beyond the Individualism–Collectivism Divide to Relationalism: Explicating Cultural Assumptions in the Concept of “Relationships”
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The authors expose assumptions buried in foundational U.S.-based Organization-Public Relationship (OPR) scholarship to illustrate how differing assumptions about relationships correspond to understandings of communication processes and goals and introduce relationalism as an analytical lens to provide insights beyond the dichotomous relational patterns of individualism-collectivism, explore global perspectives, and help explicate a graduated range of relational assumptions that challenge OPR theoretical premises.Abstract:
While the basic concept of “relationship” is pivotal to research and theory across a spectrum of communication studies, cultural assumptions about this basic concept may vary significantly, and yet escape scholars' awareness. This study exposes assumptions buried in foundational U.S.-based Organization-Public Relationship (OPR) scholarship to illustrate how differing assumptions about “relationships” correspond to understandings of communication processes and goals. “Relationalism” is introduced as an analytical lens to provide insights beyond the dichotomous relational patterns of individualism-collectivism, explore global perspectives, and help explicate a graduated range of relational assumptions that challenge OPR theoretical premises. Relational assumptions identified in OPR scholarship have heuristic value for communication areas that have “relationships” as a pivotal concept.read more
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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Rethinking individualism and collectivism: evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses.
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Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.
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Individualism and Collectivism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Self-Ingroup Relationships
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