Cultural Perspectives

Cultural PerspectivesNicolas HernandezKevin Mora

Perspectives

Perspectives are explicit, but at the same time they can be tacit.

Cultural ValuesPerceptionsWhat we perceive, ignore, notice, or disregard.BeliefsWhat we hold to be true or untrue.ValuesWhat we hold to be right/wrong, good/evil, desirable/undesirable, proper/improper, normal/abnormal, appropriate.AttitudesOur affective impositions, our frame of mind, our outlook charged with feeling or emotion.WorldviewExplicit and tacit perspectives

7Emic perspectiveEtic perspectivesEtic perspectivesIndividualist vs. CollectiveCultureSome sociocultural psychologists look at cultural differences in individualist versus collectivist societies. Individualist countries, like the United States, place value on personal identities and unique traits. Collectivist countries, like many Asian and African countries, often place a higher value on doing what is good for the group to which they belong over individual needs. The level of individualism versus collectivism in a group can shape how people in the group define themselves.12Understanding how ones group can influence attitudes and actions.Sociocultural perspectiveWhile there are many approaches psychologists use to understand behavior, the sociocultural perspective is most useful for understanding how one's groups or subgroups can influence attitudes and actions. Race, ethnicity, gender, culture, religion, and socioeconomic status are just some of the important elements that define our behaviors.13Perspectivesyouth valued over age or vice versa the belief that bigger is better value of having (ownership) importance of individual freedom; independence valuing of sports/entertainment over education belief that humans are part of the natural world and must respect and care for it importance of family values attached to bilingualism, multilingualism, monolingualism value associated with personal privacy

14In India, children between the ages of 6 and 14 are already working and making a living in order to sustain themselves.In the U.S., children start working at the age of 16.Examples

The United States

In the U.S., youth has traditionally been valued more than old age (a perspective)

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In Spain, bread is considered a fundamental part of every meal (perspective)

17Viewpoints on Cultural PerspectivesThese ethic perspectives are brought to light the significant obstacle to understand and describe a research to an assigned group of language teaches. There is a dilemma for many language teachers who know how to resolve the multiplicity of perspectives.

These ethics perspectives are brought to light the significant obstacle to understand and describe a research to assigned a group of language teachers. The dilemma for many languages teachers who know how to resolve the multiplicity of perspectives.

18Three points of view on Culture

Its the working of solutions and the propose to present the alternative as part of knowing and discovering interpretations. There are 3 cultural perspectives:

19The functionalist View

Takes the broad view of culture, most often at the national level, using the nation as the focal point, the perspective that society construct systems or structures institutions to ensure the function of the culture to establish as most general level, culture and society that assumes the culture is an integrated, harmonious whole that it tends to be static, to generate the coexistence, resolution of conflicts for the common good.

20The Interpretive View

Assumes the perspectives to be defined by the members of the culture in the circumstances in which they can find themselves either as individuals or as members of communities, since many of them comprise a culture that there are an equal number of cultural community.21The Conflict View

Is the emphasis on the communities that make up the culture specially on their interactions with the core cultures and its institutions among themselves also accepts that each community has its own perspectives to the contrary , it assumes that these groups are in competitions or with another influence of power. These perceives power as the central feature and views of culture as a place where struggles for power among communities.

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The core culture is the community that controls the institutions of the society like micro cultures, co cultures, or other cultural communities that consist of groups of person who posses distinct sets of practices and perspectives. They participate in the core culture with their perspectives come into conflict with those of other communities in the culture. This view understand the dynamic, of evolving the nature of culture. The conflicts are points of potential change in cultural and practices.

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The Cultural Perspective of Social Life