The problem of “culture” in the process of intercultural understanding

Autores

  • Andreana Marchi Middlebury College Assistant in Portuguese
  • E. Doyle McCarthy Fordham University Professor of Sociology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p251

Resumo

The problem of “culture” in the process of intercultural understanding is one of the most discussed issues among scholars today. Anthropologists, linguists, literary critics, and philosophers, just to name a few, study this issue in a problem-based and research format. Culture and cultural understanding are hereby presented by demonstrating studies and observations of two cultural anthropologists, R. H. Robbins and Clifford Geertz, a literary critic, Lionel Trilling, and C. S. Lewis, a famous writer of both fiction and non-fiction. My intention here is to answer the question: how to describe and analyze a culture that is so different from the perspective of our own? In this sense, language and discourse are also analyzed in this paper as part of culture and can indicate some of our own moral perspectives and judgments on others’ cultures.

 

Biografia do Autor

Andreana Marchi, Middlebury College Assistant in Portuguese

Andreana Marchi holds a M.A. in English Language and Literature from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and a Four-year degree in Modern Languages and Literature (Licenciatura) – English and Portuguese Studies, from UNIDAVI, Brazil. She has previously taught at Federal University of Santa Catarina and also at State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). In 2013, she was the Santander Universities/Fordham Ethics and Society Scholarship recipient. Currently working as an Assistant in Portugueseat Middlebury College, she is teaching Beginning and Advanced Portuguese. Andreana is also the coordinator of cultural activities related to the Portuguese and Lusophone culture at Portuguese House. She is interested in the relationship between language and society.

E. Doyle McCarthy, Fordham University Professor of Sociology

E. Doyle McCarthy, Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, is a sociologist working in the fields of the sociology of knowledge and culture and in the interdisciplinary field of emotion studies. McCarthy’s current research is on the culture of emotions in contemporary life in the U.S. She is a member of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) and served on its executive committee from 2004 to 2007. Since 2007, she serves on the Advisory Board of the international journal LA CRITICA SOCIOLOGICA (Comitato scientifio). She currently serves as a member of Fordham University’s Center for Ethics Education.

 

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Publicado

2016-01-26

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v. 69 n. 1 (2016)

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