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HIV Prevention
Cultural Change
Typically, culture is defined as a unique way of life that is both shared and developed by a group of people that is passed down from generation to generation and provides a framework that organizes society. While there are differing cultural formations, and these formations depend on a number of complex elements, there are also several similarities that allow a greater "macro" human culture, and various levels of understanding between cultures that share a number of characteristics that make us human. Among these are language, regional differences and adaptions to the environment, religious or spiritual beliefs, and political systems. Indeed, not all cultural groups share all elements of culture; and in larger cultural groups there are also smaller, micro-groups. Individuals may be part of more than one cultural group, and may also separate themselves based on either cultural similarities as well as cultural differences (Ferraro, 2008). Indeed, a detailed understanding of cultural variation is necessary to understand cultural change.
Culture, in fact, is...
It is reinforced with positive responses and discouraged with negative responses. Because of this pedagogy, it is possible for a person to communicate multiculturally, and even adapt to different cultures and cultural change. Taking a cultural bias for learning can be done through the psychological, sociological, anthropological, linguistically, political, economic, and historical points-of-view; each element of which then combines to form a synergistic whole (Gudykunst, ed., 2003).
One of the issues that helps us understand cultural change and development is to establish a basic difference between dominant and subdominant cultures. The uneven distribution of advantages, material possessions and rewards, opportunities and power within society, is all do to stratification of differences within a culture. Ethic stratification is a system of structured inequality that allows individuals to receive…
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Ferraro, G. (2008). Cultural Anthropology. Belmont, CA: Thompson Higher
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Gudykunst, W.B., ed. (2003). Cross-cultural and Intercultural Communication.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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The second session had camera instruction. The third session had each participant given a camera and they were instructed to "(t)ake pictures of the challenges and solution in addressing HIV and AIDS" (Mitchell et al., 2005). The fourth session saw the photos developed and asked small groups to compare and contrast their pictures by creating posters. The authors draw on previous research on photo-voice techniques, as well as memory and
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