Week 12: Culture, Values, & Beliefs Flashcards
What is a value?
a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behaviour
What is a belief?
an opinion or conviction in the truth or existence of something without positive knowledge or rigorous proof. It is an interpretation or conclusion that one accepts as true
How do we learn who we are and how to be in the world?
- Our interactions with others
- Groups – Peers
- Roles we assume
- Our own labels
- Our parents
Define Culture
a patterned behavioural response that develops over time through social and religious customs and intellectual and artistic activity
True or False: No two persons share any given cultural affiliation in identical ways
True
Define Assumptions
the taken for granted beliefs about the world and our place within it that seem so obvious to use as not to need stating explicitly
Define/Explain The Cultural Iceberg
a metaphor for the surface level of culture as opposed to the unseen aspects (deep level) of culture; Visible versus Invisible aspects of culture
Define Privilege
a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
Define Race
a socially constructed category used to classify humankind according to common ancestry and reliant on differentiation by physical characteristics such as colour of skin, hair, stature, and facial characteristics
True or False: In Canada, ethnicity is often a polite term used for race
True
Define Cultural Humility
ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the [person]
What does reflexivity involve?
holding up for scrutiny one’s own and other’s knowledge claims, taken-for-granted assumptions, and practices
