ANTH 130 STUDY GUIDE EXAM # 1 * Anthropological “levels” of analysis 1. Micro-level analysis: * Individual to individual‚ face to face‚ smallest unit * “Primary relation”‚ intimate‚ ends in itself * Actions‚ relations within larger organization 2. Macro-level analysis: * Large scale‚ impersonal‚ subjects don’t appear * Historical‚ cultural‚ epochal‚ institutional * May be called “structural analysis” * Culture 1. Book Definition: * A system of
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For international business with operations in different countries‚ of considerable importance is how a society’s culture affects the values found in the workplace. Management process and practices may need to vary according to culturally determined work-related values. For example‚ if the cultures of the United States and France result in different work-related values‚ an international business with operations in both countries should vary its management process and practices to take these differences
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groups in America today. They face many forms of oppression from the dominant group and have many things in common when it comes to this oppression. I would like to focus on five specific types of oppression they face: stigmatization‚ segregation‚ ethnocentrism‚ prejudice‚ and discrimination. African Americans are facing stigmatization far less these days‚ but if one looks back a half-century‚ they will find countless examples. Stigmatization can include the de-humanization‚ labeling‚ characterizing
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factor that impedes the communication of a message is known as interference. | | | | 15 | CORRECT | | ____________ is the belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures. | | | | | A) | Ethnocentrism
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people who are strange‚ odd‚ and different. Why do people do what they do. How do we know our descriptions are accurate? 2.) Cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism cultural relativism - the notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture ethnocentrism - judging other cultures from the perspective of one’s own cultures. The notion that one’s own culture is more beautiful‚ rational‚ and nearer to perfection
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4) Cultural Dissonance- Homogenization of different cultures is observed at materialistic level among elite group leading to socio cultural gaps between them and marginalized strata of society. It leads to Metropolitanism‚ Gangesterism‚ Racism‚ Parochialism and terrorism globally. (4) and (5) 2.5) Income Inequality- Neoliberal policies‚ a component of Globalization is help responsible for the income discrepancy between agrarian based and industrial nations. As a result of Financial speculation by
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Subjectivism Each every person in the room is a subject. There no way to make a judgment between 2 people. Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people‚ or that any ethical sentence implies an attitude held by someone. As such‚ it is a form of moral relativism in which the truth of moral claims is relative to the attitudes of individuals (as opposed to‚ for instance‚ communities). Consider
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notes‚ it is only through Rusesabagina’s negotiations that the Tutsi lives are spared. Nevertheless‚ Rusesabagina is too guilty of ethnocentrism at the beginning of the film‚ commenting in one scene that he “should not have brought the Tutsi here‚” or worse‚ “lowered [the hotel’s] standards.” It should also be noted that although they are both ultimately Rwandan‚ ethnocentrism is expressed much stronger through the Hutu soldiers as opposed to the Tutsi
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“Dancing Skeleton” is one of the most significant and most effective ethnic studied that has been made by the Katherine A. Dettwyler. In this book‚ the writer has worked for explaining the situation critical condition of different children that are facing the problems of malnutrition that has disturbed the health conditions of different children. In this book‚ the writer has provided his persona account and personal observations that she made during her ethnographic research in different areas of
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spirit‚ and show his appreciation. Since in America we typically show our thanks by giving the best possible gift. He thought the best gift would be the biggest and meatiest ox he could find‚ to ensure a great feast! This is a perfect example of an ethnocentrism gesture. Lee is automatically assuming that !Kungs practice the same norms that American’s do during the Christmas holiday. However‚ the !Kung do not celebrate the same way we do in America. The local Tswana headman hosts a gathering to celebrate
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