SOC 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nacirema, Developed Market, Body Language

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 302
• Professor: Hossein Haghshenas

Document Summary

Short play on black and white words. Symbolism of white as positive and black as negative. Rightness of whiteness in u. s. culture affects children before age of four, providing white youngsters w/false sense of superiority and encouraging self-hatred among third world youngsters. Nacirema: intense and prolonged training, accompanied by punishing children who fail to conform while shunning non-conforming adults. Culture characterized by a highly developed market economy which has evolved in a rich natural habitat. Focus of rituals on human body: believe that human body is ugly. Shrine has chest that has a lot of charms & magical potions. Holy mouth ritual; ritual torture of the client definite masochistic tendencies. The cow to hindus is the mother of life. Main function of cow is to breed male traction animals (ox) Fore lived for thousands of years in isolated mountains and valleys deep in the interior of papua new guinea.