Ppt Culture

Question 1

What is Culture?

Answer 1

1. Learned patterns of behavior, man-made materials, includes socialization
2. Culture is a complex whole
3. Includes both abstract and concrete components
4. Mentafacts, socio-facts, artifacts

Question 2

Mentafacts

Answer 2

1. Knowledge
2. Facts
3. Values
4. “How we know”

Question 3

Socio-facts

Answer 3

“How do we behave in groups and society?

Question 4

Artifacts

Answer 4

1. “What do we make?”
2. “How do we make them?”

Question 5

Dress is important in most every culture

Answer 5

1. Provides a cultural roadmap
2. Dress not fashion is important
3. Dress is not always fashion
4. Fashion is more trends
5. Fashion is not important in every culture
   5.5. More important things to think about

Question 6

What is the difference between culture and society?

Answer 6

No set definition of how these 2 are different

Question 7

Factors affecting Dress and Behavior

Answer 7

Climate, religion, technology, cultural contact and diffusion of ideas, history, aesthetics

Question 8

Culture Perspectives

Answer 8

Holistic, Cultural Relativism, Ethnoicentrism

Question 9

Holistic

Answer 9

Thinking about the many possibilities of dress interpretation

Question 10

Cultural Relativism

Answer 10

What does dress mean to an “insider”?

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

1. Interpreting dress through our own lens
2. Can be hard to avoid

Question 12

Examples of Culture Perspective

Answer 12

1. Some African tribes, heavier person seen as beautiful because seen as being fed
2. Amish: plain dress, beard when married

Question 13

Triandis’s definition of culture

Answer 13

1. Cultural complexity
2. Tight and loose cultures
3. Individualism and collectivism
   3.5 1950’s: women had role of staying home (not a lot of individualism), men worked and ran decisions at home

Question 14

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 14

1. Taking something from another culture and claiming it as your own
   1.5 No acknowledgement of original culture owning it
2. Involves “power”
3. What is the difference between APPRECIATION and APPROPRIATION?

Question 15

Benefits of being a Global Citizen

Answer 15

Cultural Awareness, Cultural Knowledge, Cultural Sensitivity, Cultural Competence

Question 16

BBGC Cultural Awareness

Answer 16

1. “Me-Centered” Analysis: What are my values, beliefs, norms, customs, traditions, styles, biases, stereotypes, and behaviors? (Who am I?)
2. “Other-Centered” Analysis: What are other’s values, beliefs, norms, customs, traditions, styles, biases, stereotypes, and behaviors?

Question 17

BBGC Cultural Knowledge

Answer 17

Knowledge Analysis: How are my values, beliefs, norms, customs, traditions, styles, biases, stereotypes, and behaviors the same or different from others? What additional cultural knowledge, awareness, and understanding do I need?

Question 18

BBGC Cultural Sensitivity

Answer 18

Sensitivity Analysis: Am I open to accepting and respecting differences? Why or Why not? What are the challenges for me? Can I avoid assigning judgments, be better or worse, right or wrong, to cultural differences? Why or why not?

Question 19

BBGC Cultural Competence

Answer 19

Competence Analysis: What adjustments both in the way I think and behave do I need to make in order to effectively operate in a different cultural context?