Family Function & Culture

Levels of family functioning

Based on work of Abraham Maslow

Foundation

Leve l 1Fo und a tio n

Issu e s: N urtu ra nc e a nd Sa fe ty, Exe c utive C a p a c ity

Roof and Framing

Leve l 1Fo und a tio n

Issu e s: N urtura nc e a nd Sa fe ty, Exe c utive C a p a c ity

Leve l 2Ro o f a nd Fra m ing

Issue s: C o nta inm e nt, Au tho rity, Lim its

Inner Space

Le ve l 1Fo und a tio n

Issu e s: N urtu ra nc e a nd Sa fe ty, Exe c utive C a p a c ity

Le ve l 2Ro o f a nd Fra m ing

Issue s: C o nta inm e nt, Au tho rity, Lim its

Le ve l 3Inne r Sp a c e : M a ke Sp a c e Func tio na l

Issue s: Bo und a rie s (fa m ily, ind ivid ua l, g e ne ra tio na l)

Fine Art of Living

Le ve l 1Fo und a tio n

Issu e s: N urtura nc e a nd Sa fe ty, Exe c utive C a p a c ity

Le ve l 4Fine Art o f Living

Le ve l 2Ro o f a nd Fra m ing

Issue s: C o nta inm e nt, Autho rity, Lim its

Le ve l 3Inne r Sp a c e : M a ke Sp a c e Func tio na l

Issue s: Bo und a rie s (fa m ily, ind ivid ua l, g e ne ra tio na l)

Le ve ls o f Fa m ily Func tion

Inn e r La n d sc a p e -Fa m ily Enric hm e n t

Activity:

Complete the House activity page in your notebook.

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

Cultural ConsiderationsIf 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:

57 Asians58 Europeans59 Western hemispheric people60 (North & South Americans)61 Africans70 Non-white71 White70 Non-Christian71 Christian70 Unable to read71 Malnourished80 Live in substandard housing1 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.

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).

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.

Activity 3.3

Think about your values.

Check yes or no to each statement as it applies to you.

Discuss as a group.

Cross cultural competence:

Be professional. Know about your own culture. Be sensitive to others beliefs. Know that becoming culturally

competent is a lifelong task.

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.