Cultural consensus theory and social constructionism
Are they feasible to learn cultural conceptions in occupational safety and health?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18041/2322-634X/rcso.3.2014.4929Keywords:
occupational health and safety, cultural conceptions, cultural consensus theory, social constructionismAbstract
Since labor industrialization, until today, safety
culture has been a key factor in global organizations, a concept defined as
the set of beliefs, norms, attitudes, roles and socio-technical factors to
minimize the exposure of employees, managers, customers and members
of the public to conditions considered dangerous or harmful. Nowadays,
the cultural approach to safety and health consists in identifying and
modeling the culture from an explanatory paradigm.
Objective: Cognitive anthropology and social constructionism offers another perspective to
interpret the culture and provide a more practical view of how this
concept is carried out from within the organizations, and thus achieve to
understand that limitations existing in current cultural models for the
management of occupational safety and health. The theory of cultural
consensus estimates the culturally appropriate or correct questions and
individual differences in cultural knowledge of individual and, social
constructionism as a process by which a selection of socio-historical
responses of ideational contents are studied, on the understanding that
contents as themselves are independent of the socio-historical causation,
therefore inaccessible to sociological analysis.
Conclusions: From the above
assumptions, it is then possible to analyze the cultural concept in
occupational safety and health through cultural conceptions of workers in
any organization.
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