Topic: Understanding Culture as Multilevel and Multidimensional. After completing both reading assignments, you are to report how the American Indians experienced the cycle of adversity, survival, adaptation, and prosperity.
Paper details: After completing both reading assignments, you are to report how the American Indians experienced the cycle of adversity, survival, adaptation, and prosperity. You are to format the assignment as shown below.
What you do: Select different examples from the article to make your points based off of this weeks National Geographic reading assignment. The article can be found in this week’s module.
When you are working with this assignment, make sure you list the page number, and section number from where each example is selected. Explain how American Indians experienced Adversity, Survival Adaptation and Occasional Prosperity on a Micro, Meso and Macro level.
1 Four Skills of Cultural Diversity Competence
Chapter 2, Skill One:Understanding Culture as Multilevel
2 Skill 1: Understand culture as multilevel (contd.)
Definition of Culture: Human Ways of LifeCulture Includes:Ways of thinking and perceiving– Such as values, beliefs and norms-A group’s meaning system-Relates to language useWays of doing-Such as behaviors, lifeways, customs and material objects
3 Skill 1: Understand culture as multilevel (contd.)
The ways of thinking, perceiving and doing of any specific group:Are learned, shared and generally transmitted to their children’s generationInfluence the thinking and actions of individual members
4 Skill 1: Understand culture as multilevel (contd.)
Culture has two broad componentsCulture is subjective and objective:it is invisible (norms, values,beliefs, assumptions)it is visible (patterned behaviors,customs)
5 Skill 1: Understand culture as multilevel (contd.)
Culture’s second broad componentCulture is multilevel and dynamicCulture exists at theMicro level -personal and interpersonal levelsMeso level – group, mid-level agencies/organizationsMacro level-the institution , whole society levelCulture is dynamic because it is continuously shaped and reshaped by policy decisions (at the meso and macro levels) and by our daily decisions (at the micro level)
6 Skill 1: Understand culture as multilevel (contd
Skill 1: Understand culture as multilevel (contd.) Aspects of Culture: the following categories are designed as a thinking tool for cultural observation and understanding:1. History2. Social Status Factors3. Social Group Interaction Patterns:Intra-group & Inter-group4. Value Orientations5. Language and Communication:Verbal & Non-verbal6. Family Life Processes7. Healing Beliefs and Practices8. Religion9. Art and Expressive Forms10. Diet/Food11.Recreation12.Clothes
7 Aspects of Culture: the following categories are designed as a thinking tool for cultural observation and understanding:Worksheet # 3, page 29Purpose: To practice identifying and thinking about Aspects of CultureFilm Analysis
8 Skill 1: Level OneCulture at the personal levelAs individuals grow up, each develops a personal identity, a personal system of meanings which underlie behavior
9 Skill 1: Level OneCulture at the personal levelOne’s personal identity is formed through interacting within one’s social group (for example, interacting within one’s family, neighborhood, school, work).
10 Skill 1:Level One Culture at the personal level, contd.
Personal identity changes during one’s lifetimeEthnicity is one influence on personal identity.Other influences include age, race, gender, ableness, physical appearance, religion, sexual orientation, and social economic position
11 Skill 1: Level One ASPECTS OF PERSONAL CULTURE: EXAMPLES
One’s personal culture or meaning system is comprised of various aspects, with some aspects being more conscious than others- To name a few:Verbal Communication-voice loudness and inflection-degree of directness-topics perceived as appropriate for conversationNonverbal Communication-one’s orientation to space and time-facial expressions-eye contact-use of silenceValuesFamily Life Processes: Decision-Making Style, Work Habits and BehaviorsReligion: Spiritual Beliefs and PracticesFood and Eating HabitsDress and Appearance
12 Skill 1: Level One Personal Culture Change and Sociocultural Awareness
Different stages of sociocultural awareness surface in the identity change processStage 1 Conformity (blindsight)Stage 2 Resistance (no, it can’t be)Stage 3 Redefinition (self-reflection and practice competencies)Stage 4 New Identity (yes, it can be and this is what I can do)Stage 5 Diversity Competence (this is the way it is and this is how to deal with it)
13 Skill 1: Level One : Culture at the personal level (contd.)
Worksheet # 4, pages 33-34Experiencing Personal CulturePurpose: to provide an experience of your personal culture
14 Skill 1: Level One : Culture at the personal level (contd.)
Worksheet # 5, pages 35-37Identifying the Aspects of Personal Culture, Part 2Purpose: to provide an experience of your personal culture
15 Skill 1: Level Two Ethnic & Racial Group
The term ethnic or culture group refers to the cultural heritage a group shares that relates to the Aspects of Culture: language, values, family life processes, religion, etc. and their associated beliefs and customs.The beliefs and customs associated with each Aspect are generally learned from one generation to the next.
16 Skill 1: Level Two Ethnic & Racial Group
The term racial group is also relevant. As a result of historical social developments among groups in the United States, “race” is a 500 year old belief that ascribes differential status to groups of people within the society based on surface physical differences (skin color, eye shape)Although race is defined, perceived, and believed to be a biological classification of human groups based on heredity and genetic differences, it has no scientific baseHumans are the most homogenous speciesThere is only one race of humans and it is the human race
17 Skill 1: Level Two Ethnic & Racial Group
Worksheet # 6, pages 39-41Aspects of culture as applied to an ethnic groupPurpose: to demonstrate an ethnic/culture group’s aspects of culture
18 Skill 1: Level Three Mainstream (National) Culture of the USA
The United States society is composed of a mainstream or national culture and many subcultures, such as Irish American, Mexican American, African American, Korean American, Navaho American, Thai American, Samoan American, Filipino American, Luiseno AmericanMainstream culture, originally based on the core culture of England, is commonly referred to as “dominant” because it is institutionalized in all major organizations and institutions (see Aspects on pages )
19 Mainstream (National) Culture of the USA
Skill 1: Level ThreeMainstream (National) Culture of the USASince the United States is multicultural, all of us are to some extant members of ethnic groups although we may not personally identify with our membership.
20 Skill 1: Level Three Mainstream (National) Culture of the USA
Worksheet # 7, pages 43-44Purpose: to demonstrate an aspect of U.S. Mainstream culture in relation to time orientation (a value and a nonverbal form of communication)
21 Monochronic and Polychronic Time
22 Skill 1: Level Three Mainstream (National) Culture of the USA
Worksheet # 8, pages 45-47Purpose: to demonstrate aspects of U.S. Mainstream culture.
23 Skill 1: Level Four Organization Culture
Organization culture refers to the policies, procedures, programs, and processes that organizations employ.Within each of these organizational policies, procedures, programs and processes we find deeply embedded Aspects of Culture and their beliefs, assumptions, and customary ways of behaving and doing
24 Skill 1: Level Four Worksheet # 9, pages 49-51
Aspects of Organization and U.S. National CultureWorksheet # 9, pages 49-51Purpose: to demonstrate the congruence between aspects of organization culture and U.S. national culture
25 Skill 1:Level Four Worksheet # 10, pages 53-55
Understanding Aspects of Culture/Ethnicity in an OrganizationWorksheet # 10, pages 53-55Purpose: to demonstrate the need for cultural understanding in daily life (at work, etc.)