Including both classic and contemporary readings, this four-volume Major Work evaluates, explains and highlights the key issues in multiple disciplines where the term "culture" has a partially unique and partially shared history.

VOLUME ONE - CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: HISTORY, CONTROVERSY, AND CURRENT STATUS Part One: The Emergence of Culture as an Anthropological Construct in the 19th Century Anthropology and the Humanities - Ruth Benedict Part Two: Functional, Critical and Interpretive Perspectives in Anthropology The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis - Bronislaw Malinowski Cultural Discontinuities and Personality Transformation - Margaret Mead Dominant and Substitute Profiles of Cultural Orientation: Their Significance for the Analysis of Social Stratification - Florence Kluckhohn The Cross-Cultural Survey - George Murdock Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture - Clifford Geertz On Ethnographic Authority - James Clifford Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Anthropology - George Marcus "Culture": Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference - Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems - Michael Fischer Part Three: Culture and Language in Anthropology On the Emics and Etics of Pike and Harris - Kenneth Pike Emics and Etics for Organizational Studies: A Lesson in Contrast from Linguistics - Mark Peterson and Kenneth Pike Context, Culture, and Structuration in the Languages of Australia - Nicholas Evans VOLUME TWO – CULTURE AND RELATED CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS Part Four: Culture in the Emergence and Development of Sociology and Economics Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? - Thorstein Veblen Culture: A Sociological View - Howard Becker Culture: The Making and the Make-up of a Concept (An Essay in Historical Semantics) - Gyorgy Markus The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences - Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness - Mark Granovetter Institutional Economics: Then and Now - Malcolm Rutherford Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies - Ann Swidler Part Five: Conceptualizations of Culture and the Reconsideration of Institutions Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony - John Meyer and Brian Rowan The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields - Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell Endogenous Explanation in the Sociology of Culture - Jason Kaufman Pierre Bourdieu and the Practices of Language - William Hanks Part Six: Culture and Modernity The Production of Culture Perspective - Richard Peterson and N. Anand Video Cultures: Television Sociology in the “New TV” Age - Laura Grindstaff and Joseph Turow Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values - Ronald Inglehart and Wayne Baker Urban Poverty after the Truly Disadvantaged: The Rediscovery of the Family, the Neighborhood, and Culture - Mario Luis Small and Katherine Newman VOLUME THREE – CROSS CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: VALUE DIMENSIONS AND COGNITION Part Seven: Individualism-Collectivism and Basic Cultural Observations in Psychology National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural Systems - Alex Inkeles and Daniel Levinson Cultural Influences on Personality - Harry Triandis and Eunkook Suh Where (Who) Are Collectives in Collectivism? Toward Conceptual Clarification of Individualism and Collectivism - Marilynn Brewer and Ya-Ru Chen Part Eight: Psychological Dimensions and Culture A Theory of Organization and Change within Value-Attitude Systems - Milton Rokeach Imposed Etics-Emics-Derived Etics: The Operationalization of a Compelling Idea - John Berry Identifying Culture-Specifics in the Content and Structure of Values - Shalom Schwartz and Lilach Sagiv Personality and Culture Revisited: Linking Traits and Dimensions of Culture - Geert Hofstede and Robert McCrae Part Nine: Culture and Cognition Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation - Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama Psychology and Culture - Darrin Lehman, Chi-yue Chiu and Mark Schaller Culture and Cognition - Paul DiMaggio A Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus Analytic Cognition - Richard Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi and Ara Norenzayan Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions - Shinobu Kitayama and Ayse Uskul Part Ten: Culture and Communication Inter- and Intracultural Negotiation: U.S. and Japanese Negotiators - Jeanne Brett and Tetsushi Okumura The Matrix of Face: An Updated Face-Negotiation Theory - Stella Ting-Toomey An Anxiety/Uncertainty Management (AUM) Theory of Effective Communication - William Gudykunst VOLUME FOUR – CULTURE IN ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLITICAL THEORY Part Eleven: Organizations in a Cultural Context The Cultural Relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories - Geert Hofstede The Effect of National Culture on the Choice of Entry Mode - Bruce Kogut and Harbir Singh Cultural Values, Sources of Guidance and Their Relevance to Managerial Behavior: A 47 Nation Study - Peter Smith, Mark Peterson and Shalom Schwartz Conceptualizing and Measuring Cultures and Their Consequences: A Comparative Review of GLOBE’s and Hofstede’s Approaches - Mansour Javidan, Robert House, Peter Dorfman, Paul Hanges and Mary Sully de Luque Traditions and Transitions in Quantitative Societal Culture Research in Organization Studies - Mark Peterson and Mikael Søndergaard Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior - Michele Gelfand, Miriam Erez and Zeynep Aycan Part Twelve: Organizational Culture Studying Organizational Cultures through Rites and Ceremonials - Harrison Trice and Janice Beyer Organization Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage? - Jay Barney What Is the Difference between Organizational Culture and Organizational Climate? A Native′s Point of View on a Decade of Paradigm Wars - Daniel Denison Cultural Change: An Integration of Three Different Views - Debra Meyerson and Joanne Martin Part Thirteen: Nations, Societies, and Cultures Business Drive and National Achievement - David McClelland The Origins, Development, and Possible Decline of the Modern State - Hendrik Spruyt The Clash of Civilizations? - Samuel Huntington World Society and the Nation-State - John Meyer, John Boli, George Thomas and Francisco Ramirez