1.2 Culture & Gender

Question 1

Define culture.

Answer 1

the creation, maintenance and transformation across generations of semi-shared patterns of meaning, sense making, affiliation, action and organization

Question 2

List the 12 cultural domains.

Answer 2

LLETS SHART PF

Language & Communication
Learning & Knowledge
Economics & Resources
Technology & Materials
Sex & Gender

Sustenance & Health
History & Myth
Aesthetics & Recreation
Religion & Spirituality
Time & Space

Political & Social Relations
Families & Kinship

Question 3

Describe relation between human security & national security.

Answer 3

Protecting individuals from violent conflict is the cornerstone of peace-building.

Question 4

Describe importance of applying gender perspective.

Answer 4

Military forces that gather, analyze, and plan for the sociocultural differences of men, women, boys, and girls are more effective.

Question 5

Recognize barriers to cultural & gender competence.

Answer 5

DESAM

Defense, Ethnocentrism, Stereotypes, Faulty Assumptions, Misrepresentation