Analytics, Organization and Culture

Abstract

As someone from the UK, the sort of things that come to mind when someone mentions culture are Shakespeare, Buckingham Palace, Mark E. Smith, the King James Bible, Mary Poppins, hobbits, Charles Dickens, Withnail and I, Henry Moore and the League of Gentlemen. These are all quintessential British things that form part of Britain’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, but a society’s culture is far more than just the music, art and literature it creates. In its broadest anthropological sense, culture is about the full spectrum of behaviors and activities that individuals within a society undertake. The arts are a part of this, but culture covers the way people do things, how the pecking order is determined, what is acceptable behavior, what is not acceptable and what is taboo.