Rethinking the Concept and Measurement of Societal Culture in Light of Empirical Findings

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-13

  Schwartz, Shalom H ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

consensus; culture; measuring culture; values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890041467     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113490830     Document Type: Article

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