ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Protestant Work Ethic
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An encompassing picture of reality based on a set of shared assumptions about how the world works. Worldivews establish symbolic frameworks that highlight certain significant domains of social experience wile downplaying others (spirituality, in a seculuar worldview we don"t pay so much attention to ghosts, while in other cultures ghosts are real) Multiple worldviews may coexist in a single culture, or a single worldview may dominate (creation and evolutionism in north america) Bima: rain is a gift from all-powerful allah. Dou donggo: rain is part of the natural orer of things, which can be disrupted by mischevious spirits. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: there is a systematic relationship between the categories of the language a person speaks and how that person understands the world and behaves in it. In other words, different languages patterns yield different patterns of thoughts. Reality is not just reflected or described by language, but shapes what reality is for us.
