Cultural perspectives

Cultural perspectives

1. They are the explicit and implicit meanings shared by members of a culture, showed in products and practices

   • Explicit Perspectives
     • Beliefs, perceptions , attitudes and values
       • They are shown in written and oral expressions
   • Explicit: practices and attitudes
     • Tacit: Beliefs and perceptions
   • Worldview
     • Fundamental conceptions shared by people of a culture
   • Emic and Etic perspectives
     • Emic
       • Perspectives created by members of a culture to explain their culture
     • Etic
       • Perspectives used by outsiders to explain others' culture
   • Three points of view on culture
     • Functionalist view
       • A society creates institutions to function. Those institutions define practices and attitudes (Etic perspective).
         • There is a national way of life
     • Interpretative view
       • Cultural perspectives are defined by community members, not by institutions. (Emic perspective).
     • The conflict view
       • Communities make up the culture and their interaction with the core culture (community that controls institutions), institutions and themselves.

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