Unit Award Scheme

demonstrated the ability to

1. define culture by giving a comprehensive explanation to include reference to customs, norms, values, way of life and food

2. identify at least two elements of culture as per the ‘Iceberg theory of culture’

3. explain the main division between collectivistic and individualistic cultures, with two examples of cultures representing these

4. define the meaning of norms and values and give two examples from at least one foreign and own culture

5. show the importance of values and norms to a culture

6. identify and explain at least one way in which culture is transmitted from generation to generation

7. define the term ethnocentrism

8. identify at least three disadvantages of ethnocentrism

9. observe and portray a different culture making reference to kinship and social networks, significant divisions with society inequality and hierarchy, political organisation, level of technology and science, relationship with the environment, beliefs and values, systems of knowledge and mentality and culture.