CGS SS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Enculturation, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism
6 Apr 2016
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The study of culture; the study of mankind: anthropology, socialization, and culture. How and why people do the things they do. Originally based on principle that each society progresses through distinct stages: realized wrong, every different society has a unique culture that can be graded on scale from modern to primitive, cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Objective non judgmental way to grade cultures. Every society needs to be examined in context of its particular needs. Ethnocentrism: to judge a give society according to the standards of one"s own society: socialization, enculturation, and tradition. Socialization is where individuals learn the behaviors and outlooks that are necessary to be accepted as a member of society: absorbing culture. Behaviors becomes cultural tradition: people like comfort of traditional culture predictable, people want to preserve culture their self identity, great resistance to change in one"s culture. Takes less time to change economy or political structure than ways of thinking: aspects of culture.
