Identify and critically examine the workplace as a site of culture.

Description

Assignment 2 : Second Learning Journal Submission

Length: 1000 words -( 4 pages)

Instructions:

As you proceed through the course materials and learning activities, you will be expected to make entries in your Learning Journal. Continue to address aspects of everyday culture ( Canadian family with 2 kids of school age, both working parents) that you have directly encountered within the domains discussed in the course units—the home, the workplace, recreational activities, and real or virtual communities and subcultures.

Themes to be Explored

-Explain the relationship between leisure and “non-leisure,” i.e. work.

-Identify and critically examine the workplace as a site of culture.

-Explore how differences of gender, ethnicity, class, age and sexual orientation relate to changes in workplace culture.

-Recognize the cultural significance of a range of recreational activities, both formal and informal, collective and individual.

-Discuss the significance of context as a defining aspect of recreational cultures.

Explore how differences in gender, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation relate to recreational culture.