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What is
Worldview?
Orville Boyd Jenkins March 2004Copyright © 2004 Orville Boyd Jenkins
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What is Worldview?
What is Worldview?
Worldview may be described as The
shared sense of reality of a group of
people The basis of culture is Shared Significant
Experiences
Common experiences of life lead to acommunal understanding of the world
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The Shared Sense of Reality is aWorldview – or Cogni tive Culture
Worldview exists only in the head of thosewho share it
It IS reality to them – that community’sreality
They shape their common life according tohow they view reality in that worldview
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What is Worldview?
Worldview (Cognitive Culture) involves
– Values, Preferences, Beliefs, Right and Wrong
– The unseen world, death, afterlife – What higher spirit powers exist, God, gods
– Self-identity - Significant shared experiences
– Expectations, Possibilities
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Shared Experiences: Previous Experiences
affect Expectations
Language is a primary shared significantexperience
Language is integrally related to Worldview
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Language is integrally related to Thought-
formation
– Some languages are better suited for somethoughts – those thoughts related to the
worldview to which that language is related
Thus the Hidden Mental World showsthrough in the language
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The real cognitive aspect of language is in
our use of the language to think
The Cognitive Culture, woven into thefabric of the language, is what we call
Worldview
Worldview in Language: Language andThought
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How Society is Organized is an expressionof Worldview (Cognitive Culture)
The Cognitive Culture determines patternsof relationship, decision-making,interdependence, obligation, restitution
Cognitive Culture is the basis for:
– Social Role Development
– Social Roles and Obligations
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Social Interaction Patterns are the Social
Culture
The Cognitive Culture, or World View, isthe basis of the Social Culture
Language is also part of the Social Culture
Language is a social medium, and thus a social skill
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Language is a medium of interaction in social relationships
Thus Language is critical in both Cognitive Culture (Worldview) and Social Culture
Worldview is thus a critical component ofthe Ethnic Identity
Worldview in Language: Identity andRelationship
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The complex factors in “Culture” (Worldview) are
tied up in language
Thus our concept of Ethnolinguistic peoples.Language is a primary characteristic of human
identity and culture.
Worldview thus exists in the mental concepts dealt
with in the mother tongue
Deepest concepts and decision-making processes
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This Shared Sense of Reality is at the core
of Ethnic Identity
Access through – Sharing significant experiences within the
group (culture learning and adaptation)
– Language expressions and formats revealworldview concepts
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The shared sense of reali ty of a group of
people
Unseen, in the heads of the members of thatcommunity
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Accessible through
– clues in language, social culture,
– cultural informants,
– Acculturation experiences living with the
people
– formal research from other researchers(vicarious experience of the culture)
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