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| culture of the elite or ruling class |
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| culture of the working class |
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| culture of common everyday people |
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| Culture from an Anthropological perspective |
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a system of shared meanings that are passed down from generation to generation through symbols that allow human begins to communicate, maintain, and develop and approach and understanding of life.
-Culture allows us to makes sense and understand the world
-Culture allows us to express ourselves
-When you share the system of meaning, you become part of the culture
-Culture is not shared by everyone, but contested and negotiated
-Focus on representations of class, race, gender, sexuality, etc.
-Culture as an apparatus of power, system of domination |
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| domination through consent |
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| Culture Hegemony is the philosophical and sociological concept that culturally- diverse society can be ruled or dominated by one of its social classes |
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| culture as contested meaning |
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| culture as shared meaning |
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| ideas passed through generations |
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| a way of referring to dimensions of situated and embodied difference that express and mobilize group identities |
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| stand for or represent other things. Examples: words, images, people, ideas, and actions |
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| our situated sense of self that is shaped by our cultural experiences and social locations |
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| One's social location or position within an intersecting web of socially constructed hierarchical categories, such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, and physical abilities |
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| A place from which we view or make sense of the world |
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| the idea that one's own group way of thinking, being and acting in the world is superior to others. |
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| process of critical reflective thinking and acting, enables us to navigate the complex and challenging intercultural spaces we inhabit interpersonally, communally, and globally (includes six points of entry) |
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| a desire and willingness to know, to ask, to find out, and to learn. |
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1. limit our perspective and our views on ourselves, others, and the world around us. Lets us shift our perspectives.
2. aware of both the local and global contexts that shape intercultural interaction. |
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In other words how our geographic positioning is related to social and political positions.
Also directs us to interrogate who can speak and who is silenced |
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| occurs when there is regard for self and other allowing for shared ground, new meaning and mutual understanding. |
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| the capacity to learn from introspection to observe oneself in relation to others and alter one's perspectives and actions. |
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| an ongoing process of thinking, reflecting, and acting. Intercultural Praxis also means responsible action. |
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| WTO (World Trade Organization) |
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| 1995 agreement on "free trade" among 157 member nations |
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