Conceptual Styles In Culture

Register to read the introduction… It refers to everything that makes up a way of life. This includes language, which is the oldest institutional medium of expression, thought which is what creates perception of others and understanding of the world, spirituality which is the values system that determines through generations of learning how life will be expressed and interaction which is the human contact and how that give and take of socialization occurs through negotiation, protocol, and conventions (Cartwright, 2002). It is the cumulative deposit of all knowledge in the human function. It affects experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relationships, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions. In other words, it is everything the human is. In "merging acquisitions" the human presence is ask to merge cultures. How can that happen when the term culture meets this definition? How can the human change everything ever learned through history about their culture or presence in the world in order to make a profit? This writer believes that this is not possible. It is the belief that one's own culture is superior to that of other cultures and what is believed by …show more content…
Conceptual styles are rule sets that are identified and then analyzed and often used to rate the other culture. There are two conceptual styles to be considered here. One of those is the rational style and the other is the analytic. In each style there is a difference in how one culture might deal with the other in a commercial situation. There is often a case when the conceptual style that is used between two cultural groups is incompatible, culture conflict will occur (Cohen, 1969). The naive ability of one culture to believe that they can act like the other culture just makes the issues