Modeling National Identities and Cultural Change

The Western European, Japanese, and United States Experiences Compared

Bibliographic Data

ID12701237
AuthorsFrank B Tipton (University of Sydney, Australia, . edu.au, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume9
Issue2
Pages145-168
Publication date2009-07-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cross Cultural Management (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-5958 • E-ISSN: 1741-2838
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1470595809335722
OpenAlexW2027897760
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited107

This article examines cultural change in the triad regions, Japan, the United States, and Western Europe. In doing so it attempts to respond to calls to incorporate contextual and temporal factors in the analysis of national culture and their implications for the management of international operations. A four-stage model of development is proposed, derived in dialogue with conceptualizations from anthropology and sociology and with the specialist literature on nationalism. Created by narrow elites over the 19th century, the national cultures of the triad became arenas of violent confrontation in the early twentieth century, and then fragmented into a postmodern diversity in the generation following the Second World War. These tensions reflect broader processes of development that have transformed culture, especially the global forces of rising incomes, rising educational levels, and expansion of the public sphere. In the triad regions these processes have led through a series of stages to a world where individuals choose their own culture. The model therefore predicts in broad outline the likely course of development in emerging nations. The concluding section outlines some possible directions of development and implications for researchers and practitioners

Diversity (politics · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Triad (sociology · World culture · World War II · Anthropology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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