Language as a Core Value of Culture  

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J.J. Smolicz

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 11 no. 1 (Jun. 1980), page 1-13.
Topik: Core Value of Culture
Fulltext: RELC 1980,VOL.11,NO.1 hal 1-14.pdf (829.41KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/11 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Core values can be regarded as forming one of the most fundamental components of a group’s culture. They generally represent its very heartland and act as identifying values which are symbolic of the group and its membership. Rejection of core values carries with it the threat of exclusion from the group. Indeed, the deviant individual may himself feel unable to continue as a member. Core values are singled out for special attention because they provide the indispensable link between the group’s cultural and social systems; in their absence both systems would suffer eventual disintegration. Indeed, it is through core values that social groups can be identified as distinctive ethnic, religious, scientific or other cultural communities. Diverse examples of core values may be cited, and in this paper reference will be made to a number of such values in ethnic groups. They can be viewed either in their original national setting, or in plural societies to which they have been transported by immigrants. Australia, with its mainly European- derived groups, is taken as a model of such a plural society, although the argument presented here is not limited to any one particular country (Smolicz 1979a).

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