citations as needed. How is cultural relativism different from moral relativism? For example‚ consider anthropologists who study genocide or another oppressive‚ harmful phenomenon of your choice. Objectives examined: * Describe what is meant by ethnocentrism and cultural relativism * Interpret the ethical issues faced by anthropologists as they study other cultures and the material remains of early civilizations According to Parks (2008)‚ cultural relativism is “studying another culture from its
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but appreciating or valuing the variety of various characteristics that make us as individuals unique in an atmosphere that promotes and celebrates individual and collective achievement. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is the preferencing of an individual’s culture over the cultures of any other group. Or tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important‚ and that all other groups are measured
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Purpose/ Preview: In my speech‚ I will talk about the influence of American ethnocentrism on the popularity of soccer‚ the most common argument against soccer‚ and the social and health benefits of soccer in order to persuade you to give soccer a chance. TRANSITION: First off‚ I would like to talk about the influence that American ethnocentrism has had on soccer in America. BODY I. American ethnocentrism and soccer: A) According to Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker
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Kipling’s poem is condensed with rhetoric and one of the key devices is ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is the belief in inherent superiority of one’s own group and culture. “The White Man’s Burden” is based on white supremacy and the title itself is an example of ethnocentrism. For something to a burden of someone it will have to be a load and a load weighs people down. Kipling obviously compares the slaves to a load. Therefore‚ he states that they are lesser compared to Americans. Which means the
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STUDENT I.D. No: 060013503 SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY PS3034 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Assignment 1 Submission date: Tuesday‚ March 22nd‚ 2011 INTRODUCTION Social Psychological research on sexism has come a long way from a mere page on ‘antifeminism’ in Allport’s (1954) classic text‚ The Nature of Prejudice‚ to the current rate of thousands of pages of scholarly work published every year devoted exclusively to the topic (Duckitt‚ 1992). A contemporary form of sexism‚ constantly in debate is the
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cultures that they bring to our beautiful country. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrisms is using the standards of one’s own group‚ culture ‚ or subculture to evaluate the characteristics of other groups cultures and subcultures‚ generally from the point of view that one’s own characteristics are superior.(Down to Earth Sociology‚ James M. Henslin‚2007). Ethnocentrisms can be detrimental to a society because the members of other groups
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toward foreign culture: ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ and geocentric. Ethnocentric Model Ethnocentrism has a socio-psychological dynamic that is broadly used to describe human behavior in and between contradistinctive cultures. The roots of ethnocentrism stem from a sociological construct explaining “majority” versus “minority” conflicts. In 1906‚ sociologist William Graham Sumner coined “ethnocentrism”. He defined the concept as‚ The view of things in which one’s own group is the center of
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Bennett IB Psychology SOCIOCULTURAL LEVEL OF ANALYSIS REVIEW _SOCIOCULTURAL COGNITION_ PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIOCULTURAL LEVEL OF ANALYSIS HUMAN BEINGS ARE SOCIAL ANIMALS AND WE HAVE A BASIC NEED TO "BELONG." The biological and cognitive systems that makeup the individual are embedded in an even larger system of interrelationships with other individuals. The relationship between the individual is affected by being part of a group is BIDIRECTIONAL: as an individual is affected by being part of
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and different ways people think and improves the business world. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is viewing a culture of people or ethnicity from a personal stand point by classifying all as the same no matter what type of personality or individualism. Can also be at a negative level as dislike towards a group of type of people. Ethnocentrism can be very detrimental to society. It can bring division in our society and bring
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people. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is a belief that group or society is better than all the other like some countries think that they are superior in ways that another isn’t. This can be detromental to a society becuase one country can invade another in which starts a war for instance Adolf Jhitler thought his race were better than the Jewish people so he caused mass genocide due to Ethnocentrism with hitler thinking he
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