Hlsc120 Week 2 - Cultural Diversity In Australia

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What is culture?

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The values, beliefs, behaviour, practices and material objects that constitute people’s way of life.

The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

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How is culture made?

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Human beings make culture and it in turn makes us. e.g. 8 hour working day, expected to work more e.g. yakuza, tattoos, japan. tattoos aussie.

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What is social constructionism?

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the ways in which social institutions and social norms, attitudes, values, behaviour and beliefs are socially produced rather than naturally given or determined

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What are examples of social institutions? 3

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Marriage

Gender roles

Taking on of last name

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What are the key aspects of culture? 5

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values, norms, language, material culture, symbols

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What is acculturation?

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“Modification, adoption or accommodation of attitudes, values and behaviours that occurs as a result of being exposed to, or becoming part of, a different cultural setting”

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What do we feel about culture sometimes?

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That it is imposed/that we cannot go against it. E.g. sending our children to primary school.

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What is "cultural capital"?

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refers to the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech and dress, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.

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What is Australia's diversity like?

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1. 1 in 4 not born here.

2. 20% speak a language other than english at home.

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What is the definition of cultural diversity?

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Refers to the existence within a single society many variations which include class, gender, sexuality, raceand ethnicity

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What is cultural competence?

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A set of congruent behaviours, attitudes and policies and structure that come together in a system or agency or professional that enables ......them to work effectively in cross cultural situations.

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What is culture shock?

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Culture shock is the feeling of personal disorientation, experienced in an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or visiting a new country, or moving from one social environment and type of life into a new one.

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What are the 4 phases of culture shock?

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honeymoon

Negotiation

Adjustment

Mastery

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What are symbols?

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Anything that carries a particular meaning recognised by people who share culture (e.g., thumbs up, a wink, graffiti, flashing redlight, raised fist)

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How does culture shock relate to symbols?

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Culture shock is the inability to ‘read’ meaning in one’s surroundings

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What is language at it relates to society?

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Key to world of culture – a system of symbols that allows members of asociety to communicate with one another;

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What is the post-structural perspective of language?

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From post-structural perspective language is how we construct our understanding of ‘reality’.

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How does language relate to cultural reproduction?

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Language is a major means of cultural reproduction –process by which one generation passes culture to the next. Just as our bodies contain the genes of our ancestors,so our symbols carry our cultural heritage.

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What are values?

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Standards people have about what is good and bad;

Vary from culture to culture –abstract standards of goodness. Premarital relationships;

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What are beliefs?

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Specific statements people hold to be true – particular matters individuals consider to be true or false eg. Religious and political beliefs.

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What are norms?

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Norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members.

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What are proscriptive words?

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mandate what we should not do.

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What are prescriptive norms?

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mandate what we should do.

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What is globalization?

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Political, social, economic, and cultural developments – such as the spread of multinational companies, information technology,and the role of international agencies – that result in people's lives being increasingly influenced by global, rather than national or local factors

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What is economic globalisation?

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The greater global connectedness of economic activities, through transnational trade, capital flows and migration.

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What is environmental globalisation?

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The increasingly global effects of human activity on the environment.

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What is cultural globalisation?

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Connections among languages, ways of living, and fears of global homogeneity through the spread of North Americanand European languages and culture.

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What is political globalisation?

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Acceptance of global political standards such as human rights, democracy,labour standards,environmental standards, as well as the greater coordination of actions by governments and other institutions across the globe.

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What is Cultural homogenisation?

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Same culture everywhere, same consumer goods everywhere