Assignment II: CULTURE Timothy Azark Introduction to Sociology 1301 Professor Banks 10/17/11 Culture Across societies, there are common characteristics of culture, even when the particulars vary. One culture I know well as an insider is growing up as a teenager in a foreign country. I spent 6 years of my childhood growing up in Paris France. It was difficult moving to a country when first of all you have no knowledge of the language. You don’t realize it until your taken out of
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By considering the connections between the texts, we gain an insight into the way values have changed over time. To what extent is this true of the two texts you have studied? (Minimum any 2 scenes, 4 quotes and roughly 1200 words) It is the relationship between context, text and responder that helps the audience to create meaning from a text. Through Pacino recontextualising Shakespeare’s Richard III, the audience is able to develop a better understanding and newfound appreciation of Shakespeare’s
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Commentary on Review 1. Analysing the topic Notice how this review topic is asking students to do two things – to summarise a text (in this case a book chapter) and then to evaluate it. This is what most review tasks will require you to do – though you may find some variation on this theme. It’s important to always read the topic instructions carefully. Hint: When you are reading a text to be reviewed – keep the following two questions uppermost in your mind: • What is this text saying? (summary);
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The Nacirema people practiced extreme human behavior or ethnocentrism, in their rituals and culture. These people were highly economically developed, buy believed in witchery, magic, folklore of their religion, and many, many rituals. The focus of their rituals was the human body, through sexual exploitation of the human body, body fluids, and body parts. (Source: "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner). I found that the observed rituals concerning the mouth were most intriguing.
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The Nacirema people practiced extreme human behavior or ethnocentrism, in their rituals and culture. These people were highly economically developed, buy believed in witchery, magic, folklore of their religion, and many, many rituals. The focus of their rituals was the human body, through sexual exploitation of the human body, body fluids, and body parts. (Source: "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner). I found that the observed rituals concerning the mouth were most intriguing.
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On-Campus activity to be done in Kinnaird College. Question: You interact with your college frequently as a student. Assess the culture of Kinnaird by looking at the following aspects: 1. Physical Design: Buildings, furniture, parking lot, offices, café’ etc. Where are they located and why? Where do students and employees park? What does the architecture says about college? What activities are encouraged and discouraged by the physical layout? What these things have to say about organization
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Also with the high diversity of the population, people tend to have different culture backgrounds. Walking along the streets in NTIC, you might find yourself in another Europe city as there is a large amount of African, Chinese, Indian and some people from other culture backgrounds. So this issue leads to the research which the author wants to dig in, will they really get along well with each other with different culture backgrounds or are they really that different? Also the author has set three
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linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behavior. Cultural paradigm is the elements or traits that make up that culture are not just a random assortment of customs but are mostly adjusted to or consistent with one another. The role of language in culture may reflect its corresponding culture is in vocabulary. Which experiences, events, or objects are singled out and given words may be a result of cultural characteristics. Depopulation, relocation
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believe this is a very true statement base on personal experience. I believe that it is important to have knowledge of multicultural sensitivity for a better understanding of the clients in the psychology field. It is necessary to understand the culture and environment that a person has grown up to understand their behavior. I agree that by attending diversity trainings and being aware of the differences in people, the psychologist or mental health professional can make a patient feel much more
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Diversity in the workforce is something that we all need to be a part of. The change of environment and culture, age of employees, sex, religion, ethnic or racial groups, disabilities, work experience, technical or professional specialties, these changes require us to diversify. When we have an age range of 20 to 65 years of age, there are old ideas of doing things and new ideas in the work force, this diversity can create new ideas as well as changing the dynamic of the work force. The
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