SOC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Xenocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Moral Relativism
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Society and culture _____: are unrelated, could not exist together, are the same thing, could not exist without each other. Elise travels across thailand with her friends and, to her surprise, finds the country quite unlike the. U(cid:374)ited tates. (cid:862)i hate the food,(cid:863) she tells her fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) at ho(cid:373)e. (cid:862)i hate the la(cid:374)guage, i hate the (cid:449)eird (cid:272)usto(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d a(cid:449)ful (cid:373)usi(cid:272). A(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a is (cid:272)learl(cid:455) the (cid:271)est pla(cid:272)e to (cid:271)e. (cid:863) this is a(cid:374) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple of _______: moral relativism, ethnocentrism, xenocentrism, paradigms. A cultural universal is: an object or a belonging of a group, a pattern or trait common to all societies, the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society, a written document outlining appropriate behavior. When she wears short-shorts and tank tops while visiting a series of temples during her first week, she is met with hostility from the locals. She feels she no longer knows how to behave or interact with those outside her family.
