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Volume 36, Number 2, pages 175-189 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2025_2_175
THE PERCEPTION OF POWER DISTANCE IN RUSSIA AND IN ITALY: SYMMETRICAL AND ASYMMETRICAL TRAITS
Cristina Dalla Libera
University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies (DISCUI);
Email: cristina.dallalibera@uniurb.it
Web: https://www.uniurb.it/persone/cristina-dallalibera
Abstract: Symmetry is recurring throughout nature, science, and human actions as a principle related to harmony, relation of parts and balance. Likewise, it is applicable to the social and anthropological sciences, as well as intercultural communication This paper, according to Hofstede’s Dimensional Model, will take into account the analysis of Power Distance (PDI) in Russian and Italian cultures in a comparative perspective of findings. An additional attempt to clarify the Russian culture complexity up will be represented by the Yin - Yang perspective on culture.
Keywords: Intercultural Communication, Power Distance, Symmetry/Asymmetry in social interaction, Italian/Russian culture. Yin-Yang perspective.
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