Stella Ting-Tommey's Toward a Theory of Conflict and Culture

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Stella Ting-Tommey's "Toward a Theory of Conflict and Culture"

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This research report is based on the article "Toward a Theory of Conflict and Culture" taken from the book Communication, Culture, and Organizational Processes. In this article, Stella Ting-Toomey talks about culture and conflict and its relation to low- and high-context cultures.

Summary

Ting-Toomey starts the article by addressing conflict. Conflict is part of human nature. It stems from many things. An example of a possible conflict could stem from differences in culture. She lists several other examples of possible conflict.

She breaks the article up into three sections to better understand the idea of conflict versus culture. The first section deals with defining culture and conflict. Ting-Toomey defines conflict as "a form of interpersonal or intrapersonal tension between two or more parties based on goals, needs, desires, values, beliefs, and/or attitudes"(Ting-Toomey 72). She defines culture as "a patterned system of symbols and meanings"(Ting-Toomey 72). Conflict is an important par...

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