Class Important Flashcards
Cultural relativism
Idea that behavior should be evaluated not by outside standards but in the context of a culture in which it occurs
Ethnocentrism
Is the error viewing one’s own culture as superior and applying one’s own cultural values in judging people from other cultures
What is the difference between cultural relativism and ethnocentrism
Culture relativism is the viewpoint within a culture,ethnocentrism is the outsiders prejudice view on a culture
Acculturation
The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact the cultural patterns of either or both groups may be changed but the groups remain distinct
Diffusion
Borrowing of culture traits between societies either directly or through interimediaries
Enculturation
The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generation
What is the difference between
acculturation enculturation and
diffusion
Acculturation is When parts of culture change but each group remains distinct
Enculturation is when a particular society like children are exposed to a specific culture tradition
Diffusion borrowing cultural traits either forced or imposed
Diffusion
Kinship
The system by which people in a particular society reckon can relationships
Cross cousin
Children of a brother and a sister
Parallel cousins
Children of two brothers or two sisters
Levitate
A custom by which a widow Marys the brother of her deceased husband
Sororate
Custom by which a widower Marys the sister of a deceased wife
Endogamy vs exogamy
Endogamy me is the rule or practice of marriage between people of the same social group
While exogamy. Is the rule requiring people to marry outside their own group
Matrilineal decent
rule in which people join the mothers group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life
Patrilineal dissent
Role in which people join the fathers group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life