ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that Mr. Melman’s remarks about his study of the two factories, one in Detroit and the other in England. It suggests Mr. Melman, is that British cultural values seem to include a more humanistic and less technocratic basis for making decisions than has been the case in America. The chapter also suggests the possibility that these contrasting sets of values are related to the different attitudes towards hierarchy and authority in these two cultures. The difference in values between the two countries is not a matter of kind, but degree. The deference or hierarchical set of values, for instance, are held in higher regard in the older communities along the eastern seaboard than in the newer communities in the West, which are more geared towards the middle class values of mobility, equality, and change. In society the scientistic subculture is more dominant than has been the case with England.
