Topography and Culture: The Case of the Changing Cage
1957 ◽
Vol 16
(1)
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pp. 16-20
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This paper deals with a problem long debated by anthropologists—the relationship between environment and culture. We analyze effects of topography on cultural change in situations of contact between two social systems, one more powerful than the other and inclined to enforce its behaviors on the weaker. We do this by examining cultural changes in one work-unit within a large insurance company in the United States.