Cultural Perspectives

Cultural Perspectives

1. Perspectives can be tangible. Perceptions, Beliefs, values,and attitudes can be explicitly stated in oral or written form.

   • These explicit perspectives are expressed through sayings, proverbs, creeds, proclamations, myths, mottoes, principles, guidelines, mission statements, scholarly studies, or other explicit forms of expression.
     • PERCEPTIONS
       • What we perceive, what we ignore; what we notice or disregard.
     • BELIEFS
       • What we hold to be true or untrue.
     • VALUES
       • What we hold to be right/wrong, good/evil, desirable/undesirable, proper/improper, normal/abnormal, appropriate.
     • ATTITUDES
       • Our mental and affective dispositions- our frame of mind, our outlook- charged whit feeling or emotion.
     • Practices as being ''productive'' arriving ''on time''
       • PERCEPTIONS as time is a substance.
       • BELIEFS as time can be quantified.
       • VALUES as time should be spent well. It is right to be on time.
       • ATTITUDES as punctuality promptness.