World View跨文化交际的世界观.ppt

Intercultural Communication VII. Worldview 1. Worldview and Reality A culture’s worldview helps its members make sense out of reality. It is “the collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of their reality.” (Haviland, Prins, Walrath, and McBride) 1. Worldview and Reality Worldview is an “inside view of the way things are colored, shaped, and arranged according to personal cultural preconceptions.” (Hoebel and Frost ) “Every social group has a worldview—a set of more or less systematized beliefs and values in terms of which the group evaluates and attaches meaning to the reality that surrounds it.” (C. Kraft) 1. Worldview and Reality “Worldview provides some of the unexamined underpinnings for perception and the nature of reality as experienced by individuals who share a common culture. The worldview of a culture functions to make sense of life experiences that might otherwise be construed as chaotic, random, and meaningless. World view is imposed by collective wisdom as a basis for sanctioned actions that enable survival and adaptation.” (R. H. Dana) 2. Worldview and Human Existence Worldview is the basic foundation of both cosmic issues revolving about the nature of reality at the same time it governs life in small ways . As Heobel writes, “In selecting its customs for day-to-day living, even the little things, the society chooses those ways that accord with its thinking and predilections—ways that fit its basic postulates as to the nature of things and what is desirable and what is not.” 2. Worldview and Human Existence Because world views deal with the topics that penetrate all phases of human existence, they start with questions about what we commonly call the meaning of life. World view, therefore, is a culture’s orientation toward God, humanity, nature, questions of existence, the universe and cosmos, life, death, sickness, and other philosophical issues that influence how its members percei