基本説明
It considers intercultural understanding and co-action, partly by means of general insights into the concept of culture and partly as a methodology to analyse a certain culture.
Full Description
This book considers intercultural understanding and co-action, partly by means of general insights into the concept of culture and the dimensions which bring about cultural differences, and partly as a methodology to analyse.
Contents
ForewordChapter 1the bookB. Academic approachChapter 2: The Concept of Culture - What, when and why?A. Culture, society and nature - a proposed clarification of conceptsB. Man and his relationship to natureC. The culture and the individual beingD. The concept of culture in the literature of humanities and social scienceE. Outline for an operational culture perceptionPart I A Theoretical abstract understanding of culture - or a proposed etics cultural analysisChapter 3: The Semi-Static Cultural AnalysisA. The horizontal culture dimension - essential segments of cultureB. The Vertical culture dimension - essential culture layersC. The Semi-static cultural understanding as a complex unity of segments, layers and culture elementsChapter 4: The Culture DynamicsA. The ongoing feedback process and the intercultural communication - the individual levelB. The culture-changing dynamics - changes in the collective levelC. The culture-dynamic complexityPart II The Intercultural Plurality and ComplexityChapter 5: The Culture relativity and The Co-Existence of CulturesA. Culture relativity - or the culture hiearchyB. The co-existence of cultures - or the culture categoriesC. Synthesized culture complexityPart III From Theoretical Abstraction to Empirical Reality - or a Proposed Emics AnalysisChapter 6: The Intercultural Interaction - or from Abstract Theory to Empirical PracticeA. The culture actor's own significance for the cultural understandingB. Three different intentions for intercultural interactionC. Concluding remarksChapter 7: Subjectivity in Intercultural Interaction - or the Significance of the Culture Actor's own Cultural CompositionA. The significance of the cultural composition for the empirical description, interpretation, and understanding of a given cultureB. The unconscious collective cultural composition - two perspectivesC. The conscious cultural compositionChapter 8: The Aspired Value-Neutral Cultural understanding and Equal Intercultural Co-actionA. An empirical model of analysis - the archetypal phase model or a pragmatic ping-ping processB. Concluding analysis of understandingC. The unintentional cultural influence - concluding remarksChapter 9: The Intentional and Conscious Cultural InfluenceA. Introduction and prerequisitesB. The importance of cultural understanding for the intentional cultural influenceC. Concluding strategy considerations - the culture actor's scope of actionD. Closing remarksPart IV Cultural Ethics in Intercultural RelationsChapter 10: Ethics and Moral in Intercultural Co-actionA. The culture relativistic stand - how far can it take us?B. The dilemma of the culture actor on two levelsC. A universal culture - or the perpetual search for 'la culture'Chapter 11: Concluding Abstract and Additional ReflectionsA. Brief summaryB. Additional reflectionsBibliography
