Worldview Flashcards
What are Beliefs?
What beliefs do people hold about life and death? About their development?
What is Knowledge?
How do people develop knowledge? What ways of knowing are accepted? Who has access to knowledge> How is it valued? Where, or in whom, does knowledge reside?
What is Geography?
What role do geographical factors such as climate, and location, play in how people look at the world and behave in it?
What is Time?
In what terms is time viewed by society, eg. Mechanical (clocks, watches, etc.) or natural ( the seasons, the sun, the moon)
What is Economy?
Who controls the resources? What is to be produced? How will it be produced? For whom? How is property distributed? Protected?
What are Values?
How do people in a society act toward each other? How do people in a society act toward people in other societies/groups?
What is Society?
What roles are available to individuals in society? Who holds power? How is power maintained? Who has status and how do they get it? Are certain benefits available to some and not others?
Define Point of View
What you personally think of a matter. It is very individual
Define Perspective
Often shared by a group of people and isn’t always individual
Define Worldview
- Made up of point of view and Perspective/ creates meaning
- Makes a model of the world for us
- Shows us how the world functions and it’s supposed to be organized
- Geography
- Knowledge
- Society
- Beliefs
- Values
- Time
- Economy
Explain
Isolation—-Contact—-Change
In a society that doesn’t have much, or any, contact with the rest of the world, when they come in the contact with something new, it can change their perspective on the way they live. A good example could be in the movie “the gods must be crazy” when a bottle falls from the sky and creates conflict among the tribe it fell into the hands of
