SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Female Genital Mutilation, Cultural Relativism, Indian Act
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Determines what is important within a society. The last thing a fish would notice would be water . In saying this, this would be the same for a human, last thing we would notice is our culture (surrounding) Learned a shared way of believing and of doing become core and are apart of our us and taken for granted, assumptions concerning normal behaviour. Becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what"s happening around us. Only notice it when challenged or put against another culture. A tendency to judge other groups way of doing things based on one"s own doing. Trying to understand a culture own it"s own terms. This notion of appreciating a different culture based on its history and. Exposure to different cultures allows us to appreciate cultural differences presence has come under criticism. Values: what is desirable by which they define good/bad, beautiful/ugly. Norms: reflected values through social expectations, rules of behavior.
