Men in the Middle of the Third Culture: The Roles of American and Non-Western People in Cross-Cultural Administration

Cross-cultural research among the various social sciences can be grouped into three basic types: the comparative study of phenomena in a series of different societies; the exploration of a society, or some aspect of it, by a foreign scientist; and the study of patterns generic to the intersections of societies. Each type involves a distinctive set of variables and methodological problems and all three are in need of further development of appropriate theoretical models.