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Title: Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall ISBN: 0-385-12474-0 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read for "Diversity in the Workplace"
Comment: Since other reviewers have summarized this book, my suggestion is to read it with present-day work environments in mind. There is an increasing emphasis of Diversity and Globalization in the workplace. This book can be difficult to wade through, but the concepts stick with you. It was very easy to take the concepts and compare them to the daily situations of working in a multi-cultural corporate environment. Sometimes the best information, is from an original source or work. I would suggest reading this, just because Hall's premises still bear the brunt of time and provide that "ah-ha" awareness to an experience.
Rating: 5
Summary: UNDERSTANDING OUR WORLD
Comment: THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I HAVE READ THE BOOK. THE LAST TIME WAS A 110 YEARS AGO IN COLLEGE. MR. HALL MAKES US THINK ABOUT OTHER CULTURES AND ESPECIALLY OUR OWN CULTURE. IN THESE AWFUL TIMES IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES AND ONE ANOTHER. MR HALL'S BOOKS HELP WITH THIS. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND A CULTURE'S LANGUAGE AND DRESS. TIME, SPACE, AND OTHER CONTINGENTS ARE JUST OR MORE IMPORTANT.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chapter 1: Education doesn't necessarily mean Learning
Comment: I read this book for the first time over 20 years ago after I graduated from college with an unrelated science major which I found loathesome and never used. I had already read "The Hidden Dimension" when working with an architect. I am not about to read this one again due to its complexity and the fact it "sunk in" then. Here are some of Hall's highlights:
Ch. 1 (The Paradox of Culture): "One wonders how many individuals who have been forced to adjust to eight-hour, nine-to-five schedules have sacrificed their creativity, and what the social and human cost of this sacrifice has been."
Ch. 3 (Consistency and Life): "He is forced into the position of thinking and feeling that anyone whose behavior is not predictable or is peculiar in any way is slightly out of his mind, improperly brought up, irresponsible, psychopathic, politically motivated to a point beyond all redemption, or just plain inferior."
Ch. 7 (Contexts, High and Low): "... in high context systems, people in places of authority are personally and truly (not just in theory) responsible for the actions of subordinates down to the lowest man. In low context systems, responsibility is diffused throughout the system and difficult to pin down ..."
Ch. 11 (Covert Culture and Action Chains): "The investigation of out-of-awareness culture can be accomplished only by actual observation of real events in normal settings and contexts. ... Culture is therefore very closely related to if not synonymous with what has been defined as "mind".
Ch. 12 (Imagery and Memory): "Our problems in education are exacerbated by eductional systems and philosophies that stress verbal facility at the expense of other important parts of man's mind ..."
Ch. 13 (Cultural and Primate Bases of Education): "One reason psychotherapy is so slow is that in order to change one thing it is necessary to alter the entire psyche, because the different parts of the psyche are functionally interrelated."
Ch. 13: Over bureaucratization: "The problem with bureaucracies is that they have to work hard and long to keep from substituting self-serving survival and growth for their original primary objective. ... Bureaucracies have no soul, no memory and no conscience."
Ch. 14 (Culture as an Irrational Force): "Since the men and women responsible for these [anthropological] studies for the most part are both well trained in Anglo-American social science methodology and well motivated, one can only assume that there is something basically wrong with the way in which social science research is often conducted."
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Title: The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall ISBN: 0385055498 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 03 July, 1973 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall ISBN: 0385084765 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Dance of Life : The Other Dimension of Time by Edward T. Hall ISBN: 0385192487 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede ISBN: 0070293074 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Edward C. Stewart, Milton J. Bennett ISBN: 1877864013 Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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