The theory of cultural dimensions constitutes the foundation of a significant portion of comparative cross-cultural business research. From Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961) to the GLOBE study (2004), researchers have refined its conceptualization and empirical methods. Even though the theory of cultural dimensions can be criticized from several points of view, it has shown its usefulness for bot...

Why do some societies have political institutions that support productively inefficient outcomes? And why does the power of elites vested in these outcomes often grow over time, even when they are unable to block more efficient modes production? We propose an explanation centered on interplay between and cultural change. build a model which values transmitted inter-generationally. The compositi...

Camporesi integrates into his account insights from social and cultural anthropology (not least, Levi-Strauss and Mary Douglas), and maintains a wholesome balance between a concern with the symbolic meaning of the cultural systems of the flesh, food, etc., and, on the other hand, a more materialist account banausically concerned with what people ate, what made them sick, and what they died of. ...

Very few academics these days consider themselves to be racists, and calling someone a racist is deeply offensive. Yet racism in the universities is just as pervasive, just as dangerous, as it was a generation ago. Nowadays we seem to have a lot of racism but very few racists. How do you explain this paradox? The place to begin is to notice the essential difference between racist theory and rac...

Soc Personal Psychol Compass. 2017;11:e12334. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12334 w Abstract Causal influences of culture on cognition are challenging to examine scientifically. We here introduce a method to address this challenge. Cultural snapshots enable scientists to (a) characterize the cultural information commonly and frequently encountered by a collective, (b) examine how such cultural i...