ANP 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Nacirema, Cultural Lag, Heredity
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Cultural lag situation in which adaptive culture fials to adjust in necessary ways to a material invention and its disruptive consequenes. Horace miner- "body ritual among the nacirema" miner uses the satirical tribe "nacirema" to illustrate how social norms and cultural characteristics that we see as "normal" might be viewed very differently by individuals form another society. Our rituals of brushing our teeth, goign to the hospital, etc. seem very primitive when described as they are pare of a remote culture. Socialization is a lifelong process that begins immediately after birth and continues until death through the socialization process, humans: Acquire a sense of self or social identity. Learn about the social groups to which they belong and do not belong. Learn to negotiate the social and physical environment they have inherited. Mead"s "the self" the self and mind are social products.
