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1. What are the five assumptions of the cultural frame? What do these assumptions "boil down to"? In other words, what's the main theme? Put another way, how is the cultural frame different from the structural frame?
The symbolic has several core assumptions:
-What is the most important is not what happens but what it means.
-Activity and meaning are loosely coupled; events have multiple meanings because people interpret experience differently.
-In the face of widespread uncertainty and ambiguity, people creates symbols to resolve confusion, increase predictability, find direction and anchor hope and faith.
-Many events and processes are more important for what is expressed than what is produced. They form cultural tapestry of secular myths, heroes and heroines, rituals, ceremonies, and stories that help people find purpose and passion in their personal and work lives.
-Culture is the glue that holds an organization together and unites people around shared values and beliefs.
The symbolic frame sees life more serendipitous than linear, which is the opposite of the structural frame. In a structura ...