TITLE: WHAT IS CULTURE? - HANDOUT 4

Family Culture Observation Form Family Culture Observation Form

Family Members
• Who lives in your family?

Birth
• Where were you born?
• Your parents? Grandparents?

Communications
• What language(s) do you speak at home?
• What language(s) do your parents/grandparents speak?

Shelter
• What is your home like?

Religion/Beliefs/ Rituals
• What religion, if any, do you practice?
• What religious beliefs do you have?
• Do you go to a special place to observe religious holidays?
• How else do you show your religious beliefs?

Holidays
• What holidays do you celebrate?
• How do you celebrate each holiday?

Economics/Jobs
• What jobs do people in your family do at home?
• What jobs do people in your family do outside the home?

Clothing
• What kinds of clothes do the members of your family wear?
• What kinds of clothes do members of your family wear for special occasions or religious holidays?
How or where do you get non-Western clothes, if you wear them?

Food
• What foods do you eat at home?
• What foods did your parents eat as children?

Recreation
• What activities do your family members participate in together?

Household Politics
• Who makes the decisions in your house?
• How are decisions made?
• What power does each person have, if any?

Art
• What kind of art or decoration is there around your house, if any?
• What arts do people in your family practice (for example, music, painting, dance)?

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