Psyc305 Week6

Journal Assignment: Interview Analysis

What aspects of this person's work determine or indicate their status relative to others?

The person I interviewed was a nurse so I would say she has a high status relative to others because that is a very respectable job that requires a moderately high level of training and education.

What are some of the connections between this person's work experience and gender, race, age, and /or ethnicity (etc.)?

She is a 47 year old African-American, so one connection is that she is no stereotypical of any of her categories.

What kinds of attitudes, values, and behaviors does this person's work culture encourage?

Her work culture encourages safety. Being in the medical field she deals with all kinds of safety procedures for doing her kind of work, and dealing with trauma victims instills a precocious nature after seeing how bad things can go wrong.

What attitudes and values, held by this person, were similar to your own, and which were different?

We were very similar being that I volunteer as a EMT myself. One are where we differ is in how she puts up with her management. They are according to her very disrespectful and dumb, but she still works there and puts up with it. I wouldn’t be as tolerant as she is about that kind of thing and would have quit. I think the reason she does is because she has a family to consider where I only have to worry about myself.

From this interview, what can give us insight into communicating across cultures or across work cultures?

I think the key to either of those is tolerance and respectfulness. Whether your communicating or working with other cultures you have to strive to be as tolerance and respectful as possible. I think that’s important with communicating or working with anyone or in any situation regardless of differing cultures, because being intolerant or disrespectful will get you nowhere fast.