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Re: British cultural code

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Yohai Hakak <[log in to unmask]>

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Yohai Hakak <[log in to unmask]>

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Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:43:50 +0100

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Thanks for the many interesting responses and helpful suggestions. This is
much appreciated!

Many of you suggested adopting a more regional focus, which I accept. At
the same time, a bit more context might help: my question was in relation
to a current study exploring the migration of social workers to and from
the UK, which you can read about here
<https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/The-Migration-of-Social-Workers-to-and-from-the-UK>
.
Most of our research participants were trained abroad (in Australia,
Canada, India, Romania, South Africa, the US and Zimbabwe) and now live and
work in or around London and almost all are based in England.
Our attention in this study is directed towards foreign social worker
arriving to the UK and trying to decipher the local cultural code as part
of their attempt to integrate. Watching the English is indeed helpful, but
we are looking for additional sources, which some of you have provided.

As social work education and practice are regulated on a national level -
at least when talking about professional culture - there's justification to
look at it at this level. I am familiar with some of the debate around
national habitus and the limitations of this concept, but it still seems to
hold value.

Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
Yohai

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 3:44 PM Robinson, Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Adding to the list: Strathern, Marilyn, and Frances Oxford. Kinship at the
> core: an anthropology of Elmdon, a village in north-west Essex in the
> nineteen-sixties. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Kelly Fagan Robinson
> Department of Anthropology,
> University College London (UCL),
> 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW,
> United Kingdom
> https://kellyfaganrobinson.academia.edu
> ________________________________
> From: The Anthropology-Matters forum mailing list <
> [log in to unmask]> on behalf of Chima Michael
> Anyadike-Danes <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 20 July 2019 14:22:12
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: British cultural code
>
> Obviously, there are a considerable number of specific ethnographies that
> one could recommend based on varying elements, like:
> 1/ A specific part of Britain, like Frankenberg's Village on the Borde
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wFAVAAAAIAAJ&dq=ronnie+frankenberg+wales&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVu_S0w8PjAhWRSsAKHU6xDpUQ6AEIKjAA
> >r
> which is about a former coal-mining village in North Wales.
> 2/A specific population, like Okely's the Traveller-Gypsies
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WCKt0jLk3qIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=judith+okely&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifhOf7wsPjAhVmQEEAHU-TCWQQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=judith%20okely&f=false
> >
> .
> 3/A specific anthropological sub-discipline, like Mollona's Made in
> Sheffield
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ut6sGBYT2EcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sheffield+ethnography&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZu8bBxMPjAhXHSEEAHY4_DCcQ6AEILTAA#v=onepage&q=Sheffield%20ethnography&f=false
> >
> with
> its focus on work.
>  4/A specific issue, like Susan Benson's Ambigous Ethnicit
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BQo4AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Susan+Benson+race&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKoLKBxcPjAhXQEcAKHXpzAWEQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Susan%20Benson%20race&f=false
> >y
> with its focus on Interacial life in London.
> 5/A non-native ethnography like Jacqueline Nassy Brown's Dropping Anchor
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LXNrE7QkDw8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jacqueline+Nassy+Brown&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlv5iyxcPjAhUBmVwKHcfnBs0Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Jacqueline%20Nassy%20Brown&f=false
> >
> about Liverpool.
>
> However, given how you frame the question I suggest beginning with the Mead
> and Metraux edited volume The Study of Culture at a Distance
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5Upv9RZfPe8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=culture+at+a+distance&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj47K-mx8PjAhUjoVwKHbv0DyEQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=culture%20at%20a%20distance&f=false
> >
> as a starting point. Specifically, I suggest the two-page section by
> Margaret Mead 'Some Problems of Cross-Cultural Communication between
> Britain and the United States: Based upon Lecturing in Britain and the
> United States during World War II'. There she makes the observations
> like 'Americans
> think in terms of qualities which have unidimensional scales, while the
> British, when they think of a complex object or event, even if they reduce
> it to parts, think of each part as retaining all of the complexities of the
> whole' (Mead, 1953:403). Then once you've read that you should probably
> read Peter Mandler's 'Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the
> Second World War and Lost the Cold War'
> <
> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9aCqRoUoKf4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=peter+mandler&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZiprkycPjAhUSecAKHR2OARYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=peter%20mandler&f=false
> >,
> which historicizes what Margeret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Geoffrey Gorer, and
> Clyde Kluckhohn were trying to do theoretically.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 1:10 PM Clare Danek [pc14cjd] <[log in to unmask]
> >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Yohai,
> >
> > Try 'Watching the English' by Kate Fox (
> >
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867
> > )
> >
> > Cheers
> > Clare
> >
> >
> > Clare Danek
> >
> > Doctoral researcher
> > School of Performance and Cultural Industries
> > University of Leeds
> > www.claredanek.me<http://www.claredanek.me>
> > Twitter: https://twitter.com/c_j_d
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Anthropology-Matters forum mailing list <
> > [log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Yohai Hakak
> > Sent: 20 July 2019 11:11
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: British cultural code
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking for recommendations on literature exploring key British
> > cultural characteristics in daily interactions such as:
> >
> > - the British understatement
> > - the tendency to avoid direct talk or the difficulty in calling a spade
> > 'a spade'
> > - queuing
> > - British manners, for example apologising and saying thank you
> > - minimal bodily contact
> > - anything else you think is uniquely British and might manifest itself
> in
> > every day interactions
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance,
> >
> > Yohai
> >
> > Dr. Yohai Hakak
> > Senior Lecturer In Social Work
> >
> > Admissions Tutor and Athena Swan SAT Lead
> >
> > T +44(0)1895 265844 |
> >
> > E: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Inst of Env., Health and Societies
> > Department of Clinical Sciences
> > Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
> >
> > http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/yohai-hakak
> >
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