Recognizing Perspectives Flashcards
1
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What is culture?
A
Terms of which human beings interpret their experience and guide their action
2
Q
Which are some of the areas of knowledge?
A
-Natural sciences -Human sciences -Arts -Religion -Ethics -History -Exact sciences
3
Q
What is the constructive doubt response?
A
When you doubt about the logic or how reliable a given piece of information is
4
Q
Which are the elements in the Values Orientation Theroy?
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- On what aspectf of time should we primarily focus - past, present or future?
- What is the relationship between humanity and its natural environment - mastery, submission or harmony?
- How should individuals relate with others - in a hierarchy, as equals, or according to their individual merit?
- What is the primer motivation for behaviour - to express one’s self, to grow, or to achieve?
- What is fundamental human nature - good, bad, or a mixture?
5
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Which are the dimensions of culture?
A
- Power distance: degree of inequality expected and accepted within a society
- Individualism / collectivism
- Masculinity / femininity
- Uncertainty avoidance: the degree to which ambiguous situations are avoided
- Long-term orientation: the degree to which societies are guided by traditions
- Indulgence vs. restraint: spectrum between allowing gratification of human drives to enjoy life and suppresing them
- Universal / plural: importance given to the rules that apply unviersally or particular situations
- Individuaist / communitarian
- Specific / diffuse: is greater attention given to the parts or the whole?
- Neutral / affective: concealed feelings or not
- Achieved status / ascribed status
- Inner directed / outer directed: control the environment or adapt to it
- Sequential time / synchronic time: past, present or future
