Lesson 6: Cultural Dispositions

Cultural Frameworks

Several researchers have tried to conceptualize culture and its impact on an individual's behavior. Culture is viewed as a complex framework of several dimensions describing values, actions or ideas of people in the culture. The table below lists three frameworks with the dimensions of each framework. This portion of the lesson will discuss selected dimensions from the frameworks of the Trompenaars & Hampden-Turner framework. It is beyond the scope of this lesson or course to discuss each of these frameworks in any great detail. For further information one is directed to sources that providing such detail (Halverson and Tirmizi, 2008, Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2006, Ferraro, 2006, Peterson, 2004).