Tomlinson‚ J. (2004) critiques the view that global integration is leading to cultural homogenization. Identify the differing positions in this debate about cultural globalization and‚ using examples‚ justify your own conclusion regarding which position you think is most valid. In the argument that Tomlinson puts forward in his critique‚ I want to look at and analyse the different positions he presents when considering a globalised culture‚ “a single‚ unified culture encompassing the whole world”
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Key Terms Colonialism – The active possession of a foreign territory and the maintenance of political domination over that territory Colonies – Territories under the immediate political control of a nation-state Microloan – Small loans to impoverished borrowers Modernization Theory – Model of development holding that some nations are poor because their societies are traditional. Such nations should achieve wealth by attempting to repeat the historical experience of today’s wealth nations Structural
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Exam Review: TERMS Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another‚ including the meanings that people give to things‚ events‚ activities‚ and people. Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture. Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture
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GENERAL SOCIOLOGY/SOCIETY CULTURE “ETHNIC GROUPS AND RACISM” I. INTRODUCTION Race and ethnicity are important concepts in the field of sociology and are ones that are studied a great deal. Race plays a large role in everyday human interactions and sociologists want to study how‚ why‚ and what the outcomes are of these interactions. A race is a human population that is believed to be distinct in some way from other humans based on real or imagined physical
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among societies are shaped. ● Understanding the unequal power relations between societies produced by colonialism‚ imperialism and contemporary global practices. ● To compare the perspectives of different societies and how each of them interprets the world. Changes in cultural anthropology over time: ● Used to be a way to proves inferiority of others and justify oppression and ethnocentrism. Now its mostly about being critical of inequality‚ ● We also do fieldwork in western‚ ‘developed’ countries
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Anthropology – Study of Human Diversity - the four subfields of anthropology Cultural anthropologists: ethnography… based on field work Archaeologists: material remains Biological: diversity thru time and space Language: now language to learn past Earnest Hooton: Physical anthropologist Black racist… said closer to primates than whites. caucazoid‚ mongloid‚ negroid Culture Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning. |
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more like ‘us’ “ (p. 1). Unquestionably‚ this was the case back in the nineteenth century when the “White” people thought it would be better to have the Native Americans be more like them. Marginalization of the Native Americans is a result of colonialism; they were considered to be ignorant and hostiles by the “White” settlers‚ forced to live on reservations‚ lost their culture and values through assimilation and stripped of their rights in society. Segregation‚ Social Darwinism‚ and other discriminatory
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Good afternoon everyone‚ my name is Family Leung. Today I’m going to talk about how has the concept of ethnocentrism affected our way of thinking. But before I talk about how it affected our thinking‚ please let me explain what ethnocentrism is. Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture. Ethnocentric individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture‚ especially with concern for language‚ behavior‚ customs‚ and religion
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Ethnocentrism Kayleigh Carr AIU Online Introduction Ethnocentrism is defined as believing that your group or culture is better or even more important than any other group or culture in the world and that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups. I chose to watch Iron chef from japan for my essay. I learned a few things about their culture by watching this show. I learned different ways that they prepared their food mostly from watching this show and I will describe
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a result of the European invasion” ‚ which is a clear insult and representation of their own ‘limited’ intellectual capabilities. He further says that a recent scholarship has shown that the above mentioned is a product of the introversion and ethnocentrism of Western thought ‚ which supports my above mentioned statement and their lack of noticing other laws but their own. Mondlane argues that the system was designed to make it impossible for an African to get an education which would make him qualified
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