SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Linguistic Determinism
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Ethnocentrism: the tendency to view one"s own culture as superior to all others. Cultural relativism: appreciation that all cultures have their own mores, norms and customs and should be evaluated and understood on their own terms, rather than according to one"s own cultural standards. Culture shock: the feeling of disorientation, alienation, depression and loneliness experience when entering a culture very different from one"s own. Symbol : something that stands for or represent something else. language: a shared symbol system of rules and meanings that governs the production and interpretation of speech. Language die out when dominant language groups are adopted by young people whose parents speak a traditional language. Cultural myths, folk songs, legends, poetry and belief systems are also lost. The demise of the world"s languages hinders our exploration of the mysteries of the human mind: p david, there is 700 languages. Sapir whorf hypothesis: the assertion that language influences how we perceive the world.
