cultural literacy

Examples of cultural literacy in the following topics:

• Educational Reform in the U.S.

  • For example, in developing countries, increases in women's literacy rates were correlated with increases in women's health, and increasing primary education was correlated with increasing farming efficiencies and income.
  • He argued that progressive education failed to teach "cultural literacy," the facts, phrases, and texts that Hirsch asserted every American had once known and were still essential for decoding basic texts and maintaining communication.

• Education and Health

  • Health literacy is an individual's ability to read, understand and use healthcare information to make decisions about treatment.
  • Reading level, numeracy level, language barriers, cultural appropriateness, format and style, sentence structure, use of illustrations, scope of intervention, and numerous other factors will affect how easily health information is understood and followed.
  • The lack of health literacy affects all segments of the population, although it is disproportionate in certain demographic groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, recent immigrants and persons with low general literacy.
  • Health literacy skills are not only a problem in the public.
  • The eHealth literacy model is also referred to as the Lily model, which incorporates the following literacies, each of which are instrumental to the overall understanding and measurement of eHealth literacy: basic literacy, computer literacy, information literacy, media literacy, science literacy, health literacy.

• Social Mobility

  • In this way, a person's economic, cultural, human, and social capital can contribute to their chances of being upwardly (or downwardly) mobile.
  • However, it may also refer to changes in health status, literacy rate, education, or other variables among groups, such as classes, ethnic groups, or countries.
  • An example of absolute social movement is when a region's economic development provides quality education to a social group that previously did not have access to education, thus raising the group's literacy level and socioeconomic status.
  • Social mobility can be enabled to varying extents by economic capital, cultural capital, human capital, and social capital.
  • Cultural capital includes resources ranging from holding a graduate degree to having a grasp of a group's customs and rituals, both of which may confer an advantage in job markets and social exchanges.

• Types of Social Mobility

  • However, it may also refer to changes in health status, literacy rate, education, or other variables among groups such as classes, ethnic groups, or countries.
  • An example of absolute social mobility is when a region's economic development provides education to a social group that previously did not have access to education, thus raising the group's literacy level and socioeconomic status.
  • Social mobility can be enabled to varying extents by economic capital, cultural capital, human capital, and social capital.
  • Cultural capital includes resources ranging from holding a graduate degree to having a grasp of a group's customs and rituals, both of which may confer an advantage in job markets and social exchanges.

• Gender Bias in the Classroom

  • Cultural norms could influence girls to prepare for their expected role of keeping a home and nurturing children, though such norms are less stringently enforced than in the past.
  • Sociologists would point to social influences and cultural expectations.
  • Further, though most research and debate about gender bias in the classroom focuses on bias against girls, recent evidence suggests that boys may be falling behind girls, especially in literacy.
  • The male literacy gap has been attributed to sex-based differences in brain function as well as to social factors like the expectations set by an unwritten "boy code" to discourages boys from expressing emotions.

• World-Systems Theory

  • Peripheral countries are usually agrarian, have low literacy rates and lack consistent Internet access.
  • They are also the cultural centers which attract artists and intellectuals.

• Social Mobility

  • However, it may also refer to changes in health status, literacy rate, education, or other variables among groups, such as classes, ethnic groups, or countries.
  • Social mobility can be enabled to varying extents by economic capital, cultural capital, human capital, and social capital.
  • Cultural capital includes resources ranging from holding a graduate degree to having a grasp of a group's customs and rituals, both of which may confer an advantage in job markets and social exchanges.
  • These examples demonstrate how social mobility is not simply based on economic capital, but also social and cultural capital.

• Social Change

  • The 1965 Act suspended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other subjective voter tests.
  • The four types of social movements, as described by cultural anthropologist David Aberle

• Material Culture

  • Material culture consists in physical objects that humans make.
  • People's relationship to and perception of objects are socially and culturally dependent.
  • This view of culture, which came to dominate anthropology between World War I and World War II, implied that each culture was bounded and had to be understood as a whole, on its own terms.
  • The result is a belief in cultural relativism, which suggests that there are no 'better' or 'worse' cultures, just different cultures .
  • They constitute an increasingly significant part of our material culture.

• Cultural Universals

  • A cultural universal is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide.
  • Cultural universals are elements, patterns, traits, or institutions that are common to all human cultures worldwide.
  • There is a tension in cultural anthropology and cultural sociology between the claim that culture is a universal (the fact that all human societies have culture), and that it is also particular (culture takes a tremendous variety of forms around the world).
  • The idea of cultural universals—that specific aspects of culture are common to all human cultures—runs contrary to cultural relativism.
  • Discuss cultural universals in terms of the various elements of culture, such as norms and beliefs