INTL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Adam Kuper, Iranian Revolution, Ben Barber
21 Sep 2016
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Communism: social movement promoted the communal values of the worker class. Sociology: focuses on people and their relationships to the societies they live in. Anthropology: examines physical attributes of humans and social and cultural characteristics. Psychology: understanding the motivations behind decisions people make. Ethnography: observation and description of people in their environment, in-depth analysis. Enculturation: process which a society learns its culture, native societies. Cultural relativism: cultural understanding in terms of the environment in which it exists. Cultural diffusion: spreading of culture to be embraced by wider audience, ex. spread of. Assimilation: submerging of cultural differences into broader, dominant culture. Cultural imperialism: when one culture is dominated by another and is forced to change. Cultural diffusion, assimilation, and cultural imperialism are mechanisms of cultural learning- rely on cultural relativism (meaning is relative to the environment) Homogenization: range of cultural forms into a uniform set of values and practices.
