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3 Reasons to Study Culture |
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Theological Personal Practical |
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Culture: A learned and shared integrated system of values, beliefs, and assumptions for understanding, coping with, and relating to the world which results in behavior that is characteristic of a group of people |
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Explain why humans are 100% the same |
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Everyone is born with certain things like lungs, noses, belly buttons...etc. |
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Explain why humans are 50% the same and 50% different |
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All humans are exposed to a culture, but the type of culture is different. |
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Explain how humans are 100% different |
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Humans are all made differently by God. |
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the foundational cognitive, affective, and evaluate assumptions and frameworks a group of people makes about their nature of reality which they use to order their lives |
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What are the four functions of worldview? |
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-Provides answers to the ultimate questions of life -Validates our deepest cultural norms -Helps us evaluate our experience and helps us choose a course of action -Helps us integrate our culture |
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What are some windows into worldview? |
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-Language -Rituals -Wisdom literature -Narratives -Critical Instances |
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The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant. |
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The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it. |
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What is internal locus of control? |
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The belief that people are in charge of what happens in their lives. |
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What is external locus of control? |
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The tendency to believe that circumstances are not within one’s control but rather are due to luck, fate, or other people. |
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What is vertical power describing? |
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Above you, you are to respect them no matter what. |
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What is horizontal power describing? |
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That people are equal no matter their status. |
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What is Polychronic time describing |
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Refers to the perception of time as a fluid commodity that does not interfere with relationships and elements of happiness. Limitless and quantifiable. |
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Describe Monochronic time |
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Refers to the perception of time as being a central focus with deadlines being a crucial element of societal norms. |
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High-context cultures rely heavily on the context of an interaction to convey the message. Words are secondary in importance. The responsibility for comprehension lies mainly with the receiver of the message, who should be attuned to the subtle messages conveyed by such markers as silence, tone, the presence or absence of significant people, etc.
(Beat around the bush) |
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Low context communication is explicit, so that all the information is directly contained in the utterances, and there is little or no implied meaning apart from the words that are being said. |
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What are the Incarnational Principles? |
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Surrender Identification Godliness Humility |
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What are the four stages to cultural adjustment? |
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Unconscious Incompetence(Tourist) Conscious incompetence conscious competence unconscious competence |
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What are the four stages of culture shock? |
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-Cultural Euphoria-“Honeymoon Stage” Cultural Confrontation Cultural Adjustment Cultural adaption-One of us |
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What does the DIE model stand for? |
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Describe Interpret Evaluate |
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a set of moral codes and beliefs that someone follows. |
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Descriptive analysis of the phenomena associated with a given religion |
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An Evaluation of the given religion from theological perspective of the one doing the evaluation |
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What should one keep in mind when evaluating religions? |
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General Revelation -House needs a builder The Image of God -Yearning to Worship Sinfulness of Mankind -Satanic Influence |
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