SOCI 120 Study Guide - Cultural Relativism, Symbolic Culture, Ethnocentrism
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Spaniards: a provocative book call sick societies by anthropologist robert edgerton, suggests that we develop a scale for evaluating cultures on their quality of life, much as we do for u. s. cities. 1: he also asks why we should consider cultures that practice wife beating. Racism and group superiority: americans regard some groups more highly than others. xiii. Religiosity: every true american ought to be religious xv. Romantic love: only proper basis for marriage. Evident in stress of nutrition, weight, and exercise. 5: we have the invention of the light bulb so we do not need to work by the sun nor do we need to work so many months out of the summer. But why do we have only 9 months of school. It has always been that way and it won"t change: technology and cultural diffusion, for most of human history, communication was limited and travel was slow.
