[Oe List ...] Helpful books on White and Tan Urs

[jlepps at pc.jaring.my]

Hello Mark.

Though it's not directly on the UR factors, a couple of landmark books 
dealing with cultural differences are: Fons Trompenaars & Charles 
Hampden-Turner, Riding the Waves of Culture 2d edition, (London: Nicholas 
Brealey Publishing, 1997) and Hofstede and Hofstede, Cultures and 
Organizations: Software of the Mind (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005).

Each book has helpful categories describing the types of distinctive 
differences in cultures. For example, Hofstede uses: 1) Power Distance, 2) 
individual-collective, 3) masculinity-femininity, 4) uncertainty avoidance, 
and 5) long-short-term orientation. The book illustrates them all and gives 
ratings of different countries/cultures on each term.

Trompenaars uses slightly different categories, though there is overlap: 1) 
relationship-rules, 2) individual-group, 3) affective-neutral, 4) 
specific-diffuse (elsewhere referred to as high-low context), 5) 
achievement-ascription, 6) sequential-synchronic time, 7) controlling 
nature or letting it take its course. This book is also filled with 
examples and country-specific descriptions.

I suspect our UR images was out to get beneath these categories, but I find 
it useful to know what the categories are that we're getting beneath! 
Anyway, you could probably use one or both of these books to get at the 
deeps of the cultures. I'm not sure about the source of the word "ur," but 
I think it points to the primordial.

Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes.

John Epps

At 10:21 AM 5/12/2009 -0400, you wrote:
>I need some recommended books that deal with the deeps of cultural 
>understanding for both the Tan and White Urs.  Where did the word "ur" 
>come from.  Any help would be appreciated.  Mark Dove
>
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