Ways of Knowing

Question 1

What is cultural positioning

Answer 1

Where you sit within culture

cultural norms and practices

Question 2

Where you sit within culture

Answer 2

Cultural background, gender, ethnicity, skin tone, sexual orientation, religion, relationship to the dominant culture

Question 3

Cultural Norms and Practice

Answer 3

Definition of witch, normal gender roles in parenting, concerns with modesty and or hygiene, beliefs about how children should be raised

Question 4

Cultural Positioning is NOT

Answer 4

An opinion about someone else’s cultural practice

Ethnocentrism vs Cultural Relativism

Question 5

Ontology

Answer 5

What we know

ex. the earth is round, Tylenol cures a headache

Question 6

Epistemology

Answer 6

How we know things

ex. scientific reason, memory

Question 7

Axiomatic knowledge

Answer 7

Things we know to be true

ex. The scientific method is the best way to advance knowledge
There is a difference between knowing and believing