Culture is a massive part in our daily lives, routines and our society, and it also has a huge influence on how we feel and think about violence. Violence is a very broad concept, which suggests that it can have various possible influences and meanings, which make it impossible to create a universal definition that is acceptable and appropriate to all communities and cultures. Focusing on culture can both inform and impede the study of violence as culture carries both positive and negative effects on how we interpret violence, which causes complications. We will be focusing on cultural stereotypes and its impacts on violence.
We can define violence as behaviours and actions that cause injury, harm and damage to other beings and property. …show more content…
It contributes to why there are divers definitions and interpretations of violence. Sampson & Bean (2006), as cited in Crichton-Hill & Evans (2013), states that there are two typologies of culture; these are culture as values and culture as actions. Culture is something that we all belong to; it creates a sense of belonging, as it is the shared structures and patterns that are learned through social interactions (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, 2014), this suggests that culture is socially constructed. Culture can be determined and defined by language, clothes, cuisine, religion, arts, music and social habits (Zimmermann, 2015). It is the ideas, beliefs, traditions and social behaviour of a certain group of people in …show more content…
However, culture can also have impacts that can inform the study of violence. Having a wide understanding of different cultures and how they might respond and approach violence can inform and help our research, as we can create and develop a more appropriate help services towards victims and offenders. Understanding cultural context in terms of finding out the meaning of people’s behaviours and understanding the needs of clients can significantly help us make appropriate, effective and useful interventions. Culture impacts how safety and fear are interconnected to harm and threats, and by examining and understanding this, we can therefore distinguish what is appropriate, inappropriate, acceptable and unacceptable help responses and promotes better interactions with people from certain cultures, which then results to better
We can define violence as behaviours and actions that cause injury, harm and damage to other beings and property. …show more content…
It contributes to why there are divers definitions and interpretations of violence. Sampson & Bean (2006), as cited in Crichton-Hill & Evans (2013), states that there are two typologies of culture; these are culture as values and culture as actions. Culture is something that we all belong to; it creates a sense of belonging, as it is the shared structures and patterns that are learned through social interactions (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, 2014), this suggests that culture is socially constructed. Culture can be determined and defined by language, clothes, cuisine, religion, arts, music and social habits (Zimmermann, 2015). It is the ideas, beliefs, traditions and social behaviour of a certain group of people in …show more content…
However, culture can also have impacts that can inform the study of violence. Having a wide understanding of different cultures and how they might respond and approach violence can inform and help our research, as we can create and develop a more appropriate help services towards victims and offenders. Understanding cultural context in terms of finding out the meaning of people’s behaviours and understanding the needs of clients can significantly help us make appropriate, effective and useful interventions. Culture impacts how safety and fear are interconnected to harm and threats, and by examining and understanding this, we can therefore distinguish what is appropriate, inappropriate, acceptable and unacceptable help responses and promotes better interactions with people from certain cultures, which then results to better