Cultural perspectives

Cultural perspectives

1. Perspectives

   • Perceptions
   • Values
   • Attitudes
   • Beliefs
   • Explicit and tacit perspectives
     • Mos cultural perspectives are tacit

2. Cultural Values

   • Perceptions
     • Perceive
     • Ignore
     • Notice
     • Disregard
   • Beliefs
     • What we hold to be
       • True
       • Untrue
   • Values
     • What we hold to be
       • Good/evil
       • Right/wrong
       • Proper/improper
       • Normal/anormal
   • Attitudes
     • Mental/affective dispositions
       • Charged with feeling and emotion
       • Our frame of mind/ outlock

3. Worldwide

   • Perceptions of all that surrounds one
   • Fundamental perceptions shared by members of a culture
     • Organizing element in culture

4. Emic Perspectives

   • Explain
     • Themselves
     • Culture
     • Own way of life
   • Value orientations
     • Individualism/collectivism
     • Low-context/high-context
     • Polychronic/monochronic

5. Etic perspectives

   • Outsiders
     • Explain other's culture
   • Analyze
     • A culture from the outside
   • Models
     • Humandkind
     • Nature
     • Time
     • Activity
     • Social relationships

6. View on culture

   • Functionalist view
     • Culture as an integrated, harmonious whole
   • Interpretive view
     • Culture as defined by distinct communities and members
   • Conflict view
     • Culture as separate communities n conflict