Culture (Wiedenbach)

Culture (Wiedenbach) comprises all of a person’s or family’s systemic life process. It has two components. Culture maintenance consist of processes that assist in the preservation of tradition, values, beliefs, ideals and the resulting behavior patterns that define a person or family’s basic nature, identity or functioning. Culture transformation is the process of adapting cultural beliefs and patterns to a changed environment. As values, beliefs and behavior strategies are changed, the new patterns are integrated in the systemic process and become tradition that is maintained and transmitted to the new generation (culture maintenance). Culture transformation in individuals and families occurs at varying rates, depending on the emphasis placed on culture maintenance and the ability to control “foreign” influence.ticle here!