CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH

Cross Cultural Research

Cross Cultural Research

Cross-cultural research takes a comparative approach to the complex problems of asking:

What are the patterns of coherence and sources of coherence in the practices, beliefs, social roles, norms, expressions, and forms of organization and conflict in

human communities?

other forms of groups?

other extra-community trajectories?

How much of that coherence is due to

common history, language, identity?

common or recurrent modes of adaptation to recurrent human problems?

recurrent consistencies in how language, discourse and expression, social roles, norms and organizations are constructed into shared cultures?

What are the patterns of decoherence and disjuncture, misunderstanding and conflict that arise

given the multiplicity and overlapping of ...