Kluckhohn and strodtbeck value orientation

Clyde Kluckhohn

American anthropologist and social theorist

Clyde Kluckhohn

Born(1905-01-11)January 11, 1905

Le Mars, Iowa, U.S.

DiedJuly 28, 1960(1960-07-28) (aged 55)

Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.

EducationPrinceton University
University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
University of Vienna
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
AwardsViking Fund Medal (1950)
Scientific career
FieldsCultural anthropology
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral studentsElizabeth Colson, Laura Nader, Walter Taylor, Evon Z. Vogt

Clyde Kluckhohn (; January 11, 1905 in Le Mars, Iowa – July 28, 1960 near Santa Fe, New Mexico), was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology. During his lifetime, Kluckhohn was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1944),[1] the United States National Academy of Sciences (1952),[2] and the American Ph

Florence (Rockwood) Kluckhohn (abt. 1905 - abt. 1986)

FlorenceKluckhohn formerly Rockwood

Born about in IL

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died about at about age 81 [location unknown]

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Florence was born about 1910.

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Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's values orientation theory

Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's values orientation theory (put forward in 1961) proposes that all human societies must answer a limited number of universal problems, that the value-based solutions are limited in number and universally known, but that different cultures have different preferences among them.[1][2]

Suggested questions include humans' relations with time, nature and each other, as well as basic human motives and the nature of human nature. Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck suggested alternate answers to all five, developed culture-specific measures of each, and described the value orientation profiles of five southwestern United States cultural groups. Their theory has since been tested in many other cultures, and used to help negotiating ethnic groups understand one another, and to examine the inter-generational value changes caused by migration. Other theories of universal values (Rokeach, Hofstede, Schwartz) have produced value concepts sufficiently similar to suggest that a truly unive

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