Global Trends in the 21st Century
Edición de la obra The Cultural Imperative
| Autor | Richard D. Lewis |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Intercultural Press |
| Fecha de publicación | October 2002 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 338 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9781877864988 |
| ISBN-10 | 1877864986 |
| OCLC | 51579652, 50064991 |
| LCCN | 2002075943 |
| Número de Cutter | L675c |
Aiming his work at the general lay reader, Lewis (the head of a cross- cultural and language training institute) advances a theory on the origins and intractability of cultural differences and proposes a model for identifying the characteristics of different national cultures. The majority of the work is devoted to detailing what he thinks are the defining characteristics of different cultures, with a scale that labels cultures as existing along a tripartite axis of linear-active, multi-active, and reactive categories. An epilogue written in the wake of the September 11th attacks looks at cultural clashes between the U.S. and the world of Islam.