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

[Herman Greene]

John Baggett did a Ph.D. dissertation on the UR images.

 

His email is jfbncfl at earthlink.net

 

 

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of jlepps at pc.jaring.my
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Helpful books on White and Tan Urs

 

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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