ED NICHOLS’ MODEL FOR

THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Adapted by Karen Trader

HISTORICAL VALUES ACQUISITION OF LOGIC SYSTEM PROCESS

WORLD KNOWLEDGE OR OR ONTOLOGY:
VIEWS: EPISTEMOLOGY THE NATURE OF
REALITY

ETHNIC GROUPS:

EUROPEAN PERSON- COGNITIVE BINARY TECHNOLOGY

EURO-AMERICAN OBJECT One knows through Either/or; All sets are repeatable
The highest value lies counting and measuring Standardization; and reproducible
in the object or codification; precision;
acquisition of the uniformity
object

AFRICANS PERSON- AFFECT/EMOTION UNIONAL INTERRELATIONA

AFRICAN/AMERICANS PERSON AL Thematic, approximate L
NATIVE AMERICANS The highest value lies One knows through popular improvisation; All sets are interrelated
in the interpersonal symbolic imagery and resistance to conformity; through human and
HISPANIC
relationships between through rhythm freedom spiritual networks
people

ASIAN
ASIAN /AMERICAN PERSON- INTUIT KNOWING COSMOLOGY
NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP One knows through The objective world is All sets are
striving toward conceived independent independently
The highest value lies transcendence of thought and mind interrelated in the
in the cohesiveness of harmony of the universe
the group