Chapter 1 Flashcards
(50 cards)
What is the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S?
Hispanics
What are cultural norms?
the accepted and expected ways of behaving and interacting with other people
Culture holds group communication pattern’s, what does that mean?
How a group solves problems, how a group perceives and possesses on its shared values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours
What are the six dimensions that Kluckhon, Strodbeck created
environment, time, people, activity, responsibility and space
Is culture dynamic or static?
Dynamic, it changes with people, geographical and historical events, and technological advances
What influence do our values have on us?
Values make us who we are and that shape all other structures in our attitudinal system
Our Beliefs
Truths we hold to be self-evident because they are based on our values
Attitudes
orientation or position, attitude gives some meaning and direction to our beliefs
Behaviour
Visible portion of our system of beliefs
Defined by, the direct result of all these structures and is found at the uppermost level of our attitudinal system
HI MR. K. Cram, Bestv
- Hierarchies
- Meanings
- Religion
- Knowledge
- Concepts of the universe
- Roles
- Attitudes
- Material objects
- Beliefs
- Experience
- Spatial Relationships
- Timing
- Values
What are the three things that people have in common
- genetic inheritance
- Basic human nature
- food, water, sleep, shelter, clothing, sex - Facial expressions
What are the 6 characteristics of culture
- Learned
- Transmitted from generation to generation
• stories, traditions, holidays, parents, education, proverbs, ehhh, sayings - Based on Symbols
• maple leaf
• Currency
• Religious Icons
• Clothing - Dynamic
- Integrated
- Ethnocentric- you think your culture is the best
Perception
a cognitive process in which we attach meaning to objects, symbols, people and behaviour in order to make sense of them
Schema or Schemata
help us categorize what we know, for example, ways of greetings, bowing shaking hands etc
Why does “stereotype” set up limitations for understanding?
People can grow inflexible with the ways in which we categorize the behaviour of someone from another culture
What are the five dimensions that describe how the national culture is organized?
- Collectivism/individualism
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Long-term/Short-Term orientation
- Power distance
- Masculinity/femininity
What is the most important symbol of culture?
Language
What is the definition of culture?
- Acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving
- Culture refers to a particular group of people at a particular place at a particular time
What does ethnocentrism mean?
Thinking your culture is the best
How is culture transmitted from generation to generation?
Through media, parents, teachers, etc
How is culture dynamic?
Aging population, technology, communication
What does it mean that culture is integrated?
You dont even think about it, you dont question why you show up to a doctors appointment on time, makes complete sense to people that are part of it
What is cultural relativity
A cultural philosophy we want to use: The idea that there is no good or bad culture just different ones
Problem with this statement, NAZI GERMANY, INDIA
Moral Relativity
Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures. Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral; meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong; and normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.
