Modeling Cultures: Toward Grounded Paradigms in Organizations and Mass Culture

Culture, Hoebel (1966) has illustrated, as proscribed by Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) as “a product; is historical; is selective; is learned; is based on symbols; and is an abstraction from behavior and the products of behavior” (p. 32). But the nurture view of culture is that culture is how and when and why we engage in certain behaviors. Culture may be described as a value system that we derive from fellow human beings, which includes values about religion, intellect, social behavior, economics, political behavior, and aesthetics.1