Children's and Youth Literature Writer's and Reviewer's Guide/Sociology and culture

Sociology and culture

Intercultural competence

Criteria

• Value diversity rather than ethnocentrism
• Equality rather than paternalism
• Respect rather than racism
• Gender instead of sexism
• Dialog instead of fundamentalism

(Source: http://www.baobabbooks.ch/de/fremde_welten/kriterien/)

Cultural dimensions

• Cultural dimensions (Wikipedia)

Idiocultures

Idioculture is defined as “a system of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and customs shared by members of an interacting group to which members can refer and employ as the basis of further interaction”.