Showing papers on "Cultural analysis published in 1973"

Development of a Cultural Self-Awareness Approach to Instruction in Intercultural Communication

Abstract: : When persons of differing cultural backgrounds attempt to communicate with each other, each makes unwarranted, culturally conditioned assumptions about the other, making communication difficult. An exercise was designed to reduce this effect through increased cultural self-awareness. To facilitate this difficult process, operations were grouped into sequences, with each sequence showing several manifestations of the same cultural influence while noncultural influences were varied from excerpt to excerpt. In each sequence, the cultural influence was a common element gradually brought into focus.

Anthropological Research Models.

Abstract: The emergence of aggressive and nationalistic Third World countries makes it imperative that a non-ethnocentric attitude be transmitted in our schools. The discipline of anthropology views the configuration of norms and values of groups as integrated and adjustive within their own environmental setting. Anthropologythe study of mandiffers from sociology, history, and psychology primarily because of its emphasis upon the field experience and its cross-cultural theoretical approach to social phenomena. Contrary to animals, man has the capacity to create diverse cultural patterns. Domesticated dogs, whether Alaskan or Manhattan bred, all behave essentially the same waylike dogs; whereas Eskimo food preferences and preparation gives us little indication of the food getting habits of the urbanite in Manhattan. Culture is that package of attitudes and customs which people possess and animals do not. Each culture is carried around in the head of each person within it. A man's culture explains to him his relation to the universe, time, other men, nature, and himself.

Segregation in Science: An Historico-Cultural Analysis

Abstract: An analysis of the historical and cultural circumstances which have led to the segregation of the social and behavioral sciences to an inferior position in the list of disciplines and some suggestions for correcting this erroneous practice are presented.