An inventory for storing data on a sociocultural system was designed (a) to favor the emergence of a structural-functional model, and (b) to generate the descriptive knowledge most useful for a practical understanding of the life style. Thirty sections are grouped into four subsystems, adapted from those of the sociologist Talcott Parsons: the…

Asserts that language teachers should utilize "horizonal" coordination, i.e., attaching what the student learns about a foreign people to what is being learned in other subjects. Discusses the National Council for the Social Studies' program which uses "horizontal" coordination in studying people's cultural values, institutions, and ways of life.…

The ideology of cultural pluralism has replaced that of the melting pot in the United States. Cultural pluralism can be defined as the mutual respect between individuals and between groups that differ in their life styles. The former melting pot ideology exacted a price from everyone, both from the minorities and from the group supposedly…

This series of discussions is based on an experiment, created by a multidisciplinary French Civilization Group in Seattle, the purpose of which was to compare the ways in which different cultures deal with certain civic issues. Four discussions were held over a period of two months. Two were concerned with day care education, one with…

Proposes an agenda for organizing and incorporating a foreign language's cultural aspects into the language curriculum and explores how faculty development, undergraduate and graduate study, and research are affected by the addition of this important element. (CB)

Cross-cultural understanding and successful communication are the objectives of this study, whose approach focuses upon descriptive knowledge of the foreign culture and society. In this part (written in English), the report focuses on some main culture patterns and social institutions of the United States, under the headings of (1) value system,…

Selected twentieth century French cultural and societal characteristics of the two decades following the second world war are organized into a structured inventory or "emergent model." The cultural aspects covered are --(1) main themes, (2) ethos or "national character," (3) assumptions about reality, (4) verifiable knowledge,…

Selected twentieth century French cultural and societal characteristics of the two decades following the second world war are illustrated by literary examples and organized into a structured inventory or "emergent model." The cultural aspects covered are--(1) main themes, (2) ethos or "national character," (3) assumptions about…