Cultural Codes – Who Holds the Key?
Cultural Codes – Who Holds the Key?
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文化密码——谁掌握着钥匙？
DOI：
10.1177/13563899922208805
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发表时间：
1999
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影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
H. Simons
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作者：
Jenny Hyatt;H. Simons
本文探讨了文化准则对评估行为和结果的影响。文化代码被定义为与特定文化（或亚文化）成员相关的符号和意义系统。这些代码可以用来促进“内部群体”内的沟通，也可以用来模糊“外部群体”的含义。借鉴作者在中欧和东欧的综合经验，本文探讨了如何在这些背景下出现的文化守则，以及他们提出的挑战，进行和利用的评价和评价人员本身。建议评价者必须准备好打开自己与其他文化的内在联系，以便建立适当的社会政治关系，这是学习和变革的先决条件。文章最后讨论了需要建立何种伙伴关系和信任，以支持相互解锁代码。
This article examines the impact of cultural codes on the conduct and outcomes of evaluation. Cultural codes are defined as symbols and systems of meaning that are relevant to members of a particular culture (or subculture). These codes can be utilized to facilitate communication within the ‘inside group’ and also to obscure the meaning to ‘outside groups’. Drawing on the authors' combined experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, the article explores how cultural codes emerged in these contexts and the challenges they presented to the conduct and utilization of evaluation and to the evaluators themselves. Evaluators must be prepared, it is suggested, to unlock their own internal codes in relation to those of other cultures in order to create the appropriate socio-political relationships that are a prerequisite for learning and change. The article concludes with a discussion of the kind of partnerships and trust it is necessary to establish to underpin a mutual unlocking of codes.