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We will review the functions that culture performs and assess whether culture can be a liability for an organization. Culture performs a number of functions within an organization .
Being an important ingredient of society, culture has following important functions to materialize in a society: A. Transfer of Knowledge. Culture is Transmissive in nature. It helps in transmission of customs, rituals and the knowledge behind everything it bears.
Culture is manifested at different layers of depth. In analyzing the culture of a particular group or organization it is desirable to distinguish three fundamental levels at which culture manifests itself: (a) observable artifacts, (b) values, and (c) basic underlying assumptions.
Culture is the meaning placed upon experience – the means by which we orient and navigate ourselves through events (Geertz 2000a, 45) – such that, the dysfunction of Cohen, the Berbers and the
Any attempt to understand the characteristics of human culture in general and of any specific culture in particular needs to analyze its configurations and patterns, the way in which various elements within a culture are arranged, and what kind of a relationship they have with each other.
Culture can be whatever a scholar decides it should be. What we need is not a single best theoretical definition of culture but clear empirical operationalizations of each approach: Researchers need to explain exactly how they propose to measure culture in accordance with their conceptualizations, diverse as they may be. 1 THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE
beliefs, cognition, culture, meaning, norms, pragmatics, schema, values. Abstract. I present a brief review of problems in the sociological study of culture, followed by an integrated, interdisciplinary view of culture that eschews extreme contextualism and other orthodoxies.
