MEANING
Involving or comparing people, practices, or ideas from more than one culture.
Use it for
testing whether a finding applies across cultural settings; comparing practices without assuming a single cultural norm; distinguishing cultural comparison from a comparison of countries aloneDistinguishes comparison across cultural settings from simply comparing countries. Academic functions: Research / Methodology, Comparison / Contrast, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- cross-cultural research
- cross-cultural comparison
- cross-cultural differences
On the page
Cross-cultural research asks whether the interpretation of the measure remains stable across the participating groups.
The comparison includes several cultural settings within one country rather than equating culture with nationality.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- cross-cultural
Usage notes
Usually before a noun. Hyphenated adjective: cross-cultural. Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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