ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Protestant Work Ethic, Edward Sapir
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The bima and dou donggo of indonesia. An encompassing picture of reality based on a set of shared assumptions about how the world works. Multiple worldviews may coexist in a single culture, or a single worldview may dominate. Share an understanding of how the world works. Sounds similar to culture as a lens. Worldview is part of a given culture. Multiple world views might exists in one culture or their might be one dominant one. Tells us what is real and how we should act a upon it. Bima: rain is a gift from all-powerful allah. Dou donggo: rain is part of the natural order of things, which can be disrupted by mischievous spirits. We view whether as something that just happens. Three very different world views that explain the same time. Without world view we don"t know what to do.
