When facing a situation involving culture, you will need to ask yourself different kind of questions to use the different views presented in this chapter. Can you state sample questions that are helpful to adopt positivist, interpretive, and critical views?
What will be an ideal response?
(Positivist view) How does culture influence this situation? Which are the cultural dimensions and values influencing the situation?
(Interpretive view) What does this situation mean to the actors involved? Which meanings do they associate with this issue?
(Critical) What is at stake in this situation? To what extent is this situation the outcome of power struggles, where “culture” is used as a device?
(For more detail see Table 5 in this Chapter)
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