Culture: The grand web of meaning

Melody Manchi Chao; Pelin Kesebir

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_24

Culture: The grand web of meaning

Melody Manchi Chao^*, Pelin Kesebir

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Department of Management

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Abstract

This chapter examines the mutually constitutive relationship between meaning and culture. We conceptualize culture as a grand web of meaning-culture is built on small and large meaning; this meaning, in turn, resides and is propagated within culture. The first part of this chapter examines this dynamic culture-meaning relationship and the meaning providing functions of culture. The second part of our chapter discusses cultural differences in meaning and investigates the case of multiculturalism to examine how individuals navigate through different meaning frameworks. We highlight cultural competence as the ability to successfully integrate different webs of meaning in an increasingly multicultural world and explore factors that help to foster multicultural competence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Experience of Meaning in Life
Subtitle of host publication	Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	317-331
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9789400765276
ISBN (Print)	9400765266, 9789400765269
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_24
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2013

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