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Family Function & Culture

Family Function & Culture. Levels of family functioning. Based on work of Abraham Maslow. Foundation. Roof and Framing. Inner Space. Fine Art of Living. Activity:. Complete the House activity page in your notebook. Culture and Society.

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Family Function & Culture

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  1. Family Function & Culture

  2. Levels of family functioning • Based on work of Abraham Maslow

  3. Foundation

  4. Roof and Framing

  5. Inner Space

  6. Fine Art of Living

  7. Activity: • Complete the House activity page in your notebook.

  8. Culture and Society • The beliefs, traditions, habits and values controlling the behavior of the majority of the people in a social-ethnic group. These include the people’s way of dealing with their problems of survival and existence as a continuing group. • Learned behavior of people including their belief systems, language, social relationships , their institutions and organizations, and their material goods, food, clothing, buildings etc. • www.iteawww.org/TAA/Glossary.htm , www.nde.state.nv.us/sca/standards/standardsfiles/social/geoglos.html

  9. Cultural Considerations If we could at this very moment shrink the earth’s’ population to a village of precisely 100-but maintain the existing human ratios-it would look like this: • Asians • Europeans • Western hemispheric people • (North & South Americans) • Africans • Non-white • White • Non-Christian • Christian • Unable to read • Malnourished • Live in substandard housing • 1 University graduate 50% of the entire world’s wealth would be in the hands of 6 people – all citizens of the United States. Source: From an ERIC Search of United Nations Demographic Data, September 1, 1985. These statistics were compiled by a Chicago Public Schools administrator and were taken from the Association for Retired Citizens Newsletter, Vol. 16, June 1990.

  10. The effect of culture on the individual: • Culture is a framework through which actions are filtered or checked as individuals go about daily life (Anderson & Fenichel).

  11. Communicating with cultures different from your own. • Approach people as individuals. • Find out about other cultures. • Be open to new ideas. • View each culture as good and working. • Think cultural differences not barriers. • Be clear about who you are.

  12. Activity 3.3 • Think about your values. • Check yes or no to each statement as it applies to you. • Discuss as a group.

  13. Cross cultural competence: • Be professional. • Know about your own culture. • Be sensitive to others beliefs. • Know that becoming culturally competent is a lifelong task.

  14. Closing thoughts on families & culture. • We all may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. • Martin Luther King, Jr.

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