THEORY OF CULTURE CARE

Theory of Culture Care



Theory of Culture Care

A common philosophical approach to the cultural care promotes a perspective of anthropology to examine knowledge and its philosophical principles. The researchers are committed to constantly analyze theoretical material on their network by confronting the emerging data. Anthropology is a discipline within the cultural field and its main perspectives, questions, disagreements are very little known in other languages, which have been proved by the inefficiency in recent publications. The concept of culture which Kroeber and Kluckhohn, who were the American anthropologists, collected in 150 different definitions is constantly debated in anthropology. Therefore, in this topic, all the reasons would be mentioned about Anthropology to study human beings everywhere and all its dimensions and latitudes would be essential to develop overall knowledge regarding the subject. (Brink, 1976)

The care can be thought of with a theoretical, philosophical, hermeneutic, methodological, professional and various other aspects in order to continue preserving the life of each of one the people but also is old the cultural world and the diversity of humanity. In order to constantly interact with anthropology, it is vital for the people to present the philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches to analyze various aspects of trans-cultural care theory. In order to facilitate the advancement of universal care that incorporates cultural and empirical knowledge of care, the issue of unit humanity must be given further consideration. There was one famous theorist Madeleine Leininger, who was interested in anthropology and its main concept culture. She observed and cared for children with mental disorders in different cultural groups. She compared the behavior of various people and became aware of the importance and influence of the cultural dimension of caring. This experience motivated her to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington. She even intended to raise nursing to a profession focused on Cartesianism and unfamiliar with anthropology and culture. She even published her first book that had a title "Nursing and Anthropology”. (Chrisman, 1982)

In 1978, the initial project to merge nursing and anthropology lead to the development of theory regarding trans-cultural care. The importance of care associated with a cultural perspective based on relativism is one of the main achievements of anthropology theories. Leininger studied a little-known cultural group in 1962-1964 known as Gadsup New Guinea. Gadsup lived in bamboo huts with no electricity, modern appliances such As Refrigerators, stoves or other modern conveniences. They had no sense of Western clock time in their Activities in the early 1960s. These observations were compared with the group that spent American way of life from a viewpoint that ignored Gadsup. By placing these studies in the cultural context of United States, it inserted various points in nursing. Leininger chose the scientific perspective of anthropology to examine the cultural dimension of many groups in America. However, despite the relativistic orientation who does not share this view, the purpose of anthropology itself is not the explanation, but the interpretation, the elucidation of symbolic meanings ...