Culture and Health Flashcards
What is the importance of culture in fostering social cohesion and stability?
Culture provides a framework for social interaction, cooperation, and conflict resolution.
What is the importance of culture in supporting health and well-being?
- Culture provides a framework for understanding health, illness, and wellness.
- It helps us develop healthy habits, behaviors, and practices that promote physical and mental well-being.
What is the importance of culture in preserving heritage and tradition?
- Culture provides a framework for passing down knowledge, skills and customs from one generation to the next.
- It helps us preserve our collective memory, history, and cultural identity.
What is the importance of culture in promoting cross-cultural understanding and exchange?
Culture provides a framework for communication, collaboration, and mutual understanding between people from different cultural backgrounds.
What is cultural diversity?
- Cultural diversity is the presence of different cultures within a society or community.
- It encompasses the various cultural practices, traditions, languages, customs, and values that coexist and interact within a given context.
In what aspects of life is cultural diversity observed (dimensions)?
Language, Religion, Customs, Cuisine, Arts, Values, Beliefs, Traditions, History.
What are the benefits of cultural diversity?
Innovation, Economic growth, Social cohesion, Personal growth.
What are the challenges of cultural diversity?
- Communication barriers
- Cultural conflicts,
- Discrimination
- Integration,
- Power dynamics.
What is a subculture?
- A subculture is a smaller cultural group within a larger culture that shares similar values, norms, and practices.
- It can emerge as a response to the dominant culture and can be based on various factors.
What factors can subcultures be based on?
Age, Ethnicity, Occupation, Interests, Geography.
What are the characteristics of subcultures?
Shared values and norms, Distinct language and symbols, Rituals and practices, Social networks, Resistance to dominant culture.
What are the types of subculture?
- Youth subcultures,
- Ethnic subcultures
- Occupational subculture
- Interest-based subcultures
- Virtual subcultures
What are the functions of subcultures
: Identity formation, Social support, Resistance and challenge, Innovation and creativity, Cultural enrichment.
What are the challenges facing subcultures?
Conflict with dominant culture, Internal conflicts, Commercialization, Assimilation.
