Understanding Management (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic
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Chapter 3, Problem 9SL
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Whether I know which countries tend to cluster into similar sociocultural and economic groupings.
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Sociocultural and economic groupings are two of the main characteristics in grouping different people, individuals in the same sociocultural and economic group tend to have similar way of behaving and similar thinking patterns. The term "sociocultural system" depicts three concepts: society, culture, and system. These individuals tend to persist the same view, reaction and attitude towards different situations. There are certain visible characteristics such as their attire, manners and way of talking and behavior that can be easily identified by observing these individuals and classify them into one sociocultural group. There are certain other characteristics such as beliefs, values that cannot be easily discovered, it can be identified by only talking several different topics and settling with these groups for a while to gain a better understanding.
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