SMC2a-1: LifeWorlds, LifeViews
& Cultural Competence
Values of Target Group Research
This workshop underlines the importance of understanding the sociological setting so that a fitting communication of the gospel may be expressed to a particular group of people. Discussions will include worldview, cultural forms, lifeviews, beliefs, and other influences that need to be understood when engaging a people group. Participants will be introduced to a diagnostic tool to examining needs of people with differing cultural backgrounds.
Workshop Objectives
What you will learn in this workshop
1. How to culturally explore a people group.
2. About overlapping elements of lifeworlds of people that shape social identity.
3. Understand some of the difficulties of the immigrant in the process of adaptation.
4. Become familar with basic ideas of the value orientation model of lifeview.
Workshop Outline
1. Why Explore People Groups?
2. Identify the Sociological Setting
3. Overlapping Contexts & Self-Identity
4. Overlapping LifeWorlds
5. Culture As A Mental Map & Enculturation
6. Cultural Settings
7. Understanding of Lifeview
8. Diagnostic Tool for Understanding Cultural Issues