collectivistic cultures

How People Experience Emotions in Collectivistic Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

People in collectivistic societies commonly have a personal identity strongly integrated into their group. Accordingly, the cultural norms of collectivistic societies assume interdependent relations with each other and with a group, such as extended family and kin. Their relational values determine how […]

Cultural Values in Collectivistic Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

Collectivism and individualism were among the cultural constructs and dimensions that early cross-cultural psychologists identified and elaborated on in the 1980s and 1990s (Hofstede, 1980/1984; Marsella et al., 1985; Triandis, 1995). Since then, researchers have widely used the cultural parameters of collectivism […]

Collectivistic Values of Arranged Marriages

Victor Karandashev
 

The practices of arranged marriages have been common in many traditional collectivistic societies in the past. They are still performed in certain old-fashioned cultural communities in India, China, Muslin societies, and some other countries. What Are Arranged Marriages? Arranged marriage is an […]

The Cultures Beyond the Global Western and Eastern Societies

Victor Karandashev
 

For a very long time, scholars interested in cultures and their comparison have focused on Western and Eastern societies as distinctively different types of cultures. Such a cultural dichotomy was simple and easy to understand and explain in terms of philosophical, social, […]

The Diversity of Western and Eastern Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

For a long time, the cultural distinction between Western and Eastern cultures has been the subject of public debate and academic study. Western cultures have usually been thought of as those of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States […]

5 Differences Between Western and Eastern Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

The cultural opposition of Western and Eastern societies has been widely recognized in public discourse and scholarship. This division of the major world cultures had historical roots, valid justification, and adequacy. Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States of America, […]

Low-context and High-context Communication Styles

Victor Karandashev
 

Our interpersonal communication involves both The context in which we say something can be more important than the content that we want to deliver. People can be receptive to our message in one context but not in another. Sometimes, context can tell […]

Individualism and Collectivism in Societies

Victor Karandashev
 

Individualism and collectivism have been among the central concepts of cross-cultural research. The division between individualistic Western societies and collectivistic Eastern societies is probably the best-known cultural parameter distinguishing the West and East. At least, that is the most common framework that […]

Personal Identity in Independent and Interdependent Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

The concept of interdependent and independent cultures tells us something about the internal structure of society and relationships between people, as well as how they are deemed in the mind and self of a person. These are personhood conceptions and construals of […]