What Are The Basic Things That Happen In Our Micro-Culture

One way that my family helped to socialize me to my culture’s norms and values was by making me hang out with other kids. Both my parents urged me to interact with others so that I could learn different things. I learned that everybody has a different view on culture and that opinions can differ.

Microculture: “distinctive culture shared by a small group that is often based on location or within an organization” (Microculture. n.d). The eighteen microcultures discussed within the dissertation are as followed: Rich people, poor people, African American people, white people native American people, Asians, Muslims, people who participate in the new age movement, homosexual, women, homosexual men, people with disabilities, students who re labeled gifted or talented, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, people residing within the United States, but don’t speak English, Jews, Catholics, and stay at home mothers. Each microculture will be appraised through my cultural lens of feelings and opinions, what sources of socialization contributed

At first glance, one would not expect the Technology Center to provide a place of study for some of the most creative students at USI: the art and theatre majors. The cold, hard concrete building does not seem to assist in providing any type of creative inspiration for aspiring artists. The name alone seems to imply that the building is used to train computer engineers; this is far from the truth. As an art major, the basement of this building has unwillingly become known as a second home to me. The systematic bustle of art students booking it to their next class with portfolios and art boxes in hand is a familiar sight to me. However, as I looked down the hall from my bench, I saw a completely different type of artist; I saw theatre artists.

Today I spent my first day of observation in the study room of my dorm. This room has a deep blue focal wall, with three large windows. The room contains a wooden table with seven hardback chairs. The room also has a couch, two lounge chairs, a recycling bin, and a trash can. The day is Monday and I was in this room from 7:18 pm and to 10:01 pm. I was alone in this room for a majority of my time there. This room seems to have all of the materials necessary for studying besides a whiteboard. The room has widows and plexiglass when combined with the paint and furniture creates, in my opinion, an inviting atmosphere. About half of my time in the room was spent by myself. This parallels to the fact that oftentimes when I walk by the study room,

Quiet storming. Because of the topic of the group, I expect members to be able to relate to each other’s experiences quite easily. However, in this stage, I am expecting there to be periods of quiet storming—where members will avoid engaging in the conversation. There might be a conflict within them between how much they wish to share. When I see members exhibiting this type of behavior in the group, I will mention that they have been quiet for a while and ask them if they wish to share.

The first five things that come to mind that have affected my personal culture are family background, religious affiliation, language, ethnicity, and friends. I come from a family with both parents and several siblings. Everyone in my family is Christian, all of them having grown up in the church, typically Nazarene. My entire family is made of Caucasian, native English speakers. Because of that, most of my friends are also native English speakers and all Christian.

Throughout the Ethnographic research Project there have been many themes that have come and the first one that seems significant to this group of people, is communication and the idea of gossip. Throughout the observations, I have seen this at least every time because of the job they have and what they do, it even tends to build up sometimes also. For example, “Logan and Larissa were both working and they started talking about how the manager’s office was very messy at the moment, Larissa agreed with him, then she started commented about how most likely her hours will be cut into half of what they are right now.” However, this seems very insignificant, it is something actually very important because it seemed in this instance the gossip grew

During the planning phase and right before committing the action, I anxiously tried to foresee the response from my close friends; scared to damage my friendship, I debated whether my friends would be angry about being used in an experiment. However, I personally believed they would be understanding, so I decided to continue. While completing my violation, I felt incredibly uncomfortable. Usually, I am quite passive and allow others to dictate the flow of a conversation, but by dominating the discussion, I conflicted with my own self image. When my friends finally confronted me, I, conflicting with my own self schema, felt relieved to finally stop my actions. In fear of possibly causing some irreparable harm to our friendships, I informed them about the class project, and they completely understood my actions.

Some of these good virtues can be inferred from ancient Egyptian funerary texts such as The Negative Confession, which state “I have not caused pain, I have not caused tears, I have not killed…”[10] According to this text, causing pain and tears, and committing murder were actions that could bar one from attaining immortality. This standard of ethics differs from the previously held notion, which was that only kings could become immortals. Because of the potential promise of eternity, people began to act better, in hopes that their efforts would be enough.

Interpersonal learning in a group setting occurs by way of learning about self. In order for the group to work effectively, group members must feel safe and must have the ability to be honest with themselves as well as their group members. This allows the group members to view you as authentic and human. While in group, one must be aware of the impact you have on group members and being willing to self-reflect in efforts to progress. While in the group setting, several concepts are taught in hopes that members will utilize them inside, as well as outside of the group in their everyday life to create a positive lifestyle. This is referred to as social microcosm. Social microcosm is highly important as it “is a keystone of the entire approach

As you recalled, we spent many hours perfecting this agreement to ensure that it would work for both of us. Therefore, I was disappointed that this was one of the main issues that affecting our roommate relationship. We agreed that we would not invite a group of friends into our room past 10PM on the school day to play games, watch Netflix, YouTube, or engage in any activities that affecting our friendship. We had many conversations about this issue. Nevertheless, you still are consistently violating our agreements by inviting more than six people into our small room nearly every day watching Netflix, YouTube, and playing games even past midnight. I felt uncomfortable staying in my own room because your friends are always right there and occasionally, I couldn’t move around without stepping over your friends. I am concerned about our living arrangement because it started to affect my moral and studies here at

to thirty bee stings. I would not wish for anyone to go through that. They live in a totally different world than I do, but I feel like that is something that should only be in movies.

When I first learned my culture I was afraid that I would not be able to remember the guidelines and make mistakes. As I took notes on my new culture I realized that with practice it was easy to adapt to with the entire class learning it together and having instructions. When first going into the other culture(Alpha) I thought it would be easy, figuring they spoke English and spoke of men so highly. While I easily understood the main principles I lost focus on the small foundations of their culture and lost the value of what they believe in. When going into their culture another time the realization hit me that our communication was diverse in all matters. Communicating with the Alpha culture was difficult and I had to realize that what I thought was acceptable to talk about, was instead extremely rude. Such as talking about women was rude when speaking of men was important. Communicating with my own culture was easy and I did not offend them because I was “raised” on the values of the

Be respectful to all individuals and if times where disagreements or possible conflicting areas develop resolve them in a calm, open and clear manner. Be understanding of their views and avoid stereotyping.

Culture can be interpreted in multiple ways and have many different meanings to different individuals. Consequently, it is because of those facts that a definition is so hard to create. To some, culture results from consumed meanings by a social group (Lewis, 2008). Others view culture as something based on economics and servitude (Marx, as cited by Lewis, 2008). Hebdige ambiguous concept