ABSTRACT

The research of Hofstede, VanMaanen and Lament, Hoecklin, Goodman, and a host of other sociologists and anthropologists presents compelling evidence of substantial differences among societies and the cultures represented in those societies. But of all the cultural distinctions, that which signals the role of the individual is the most significant, because it carries with it not only the most basic theoretical conceptualizations of the origins of society and its institutions, but it also establishes the manner in which members of that society interact among themselves and with members of cultures whose nature is alien to their own.