Cultural and Social Order

Question 1

What is multiculturism?

Answer 1

multiple cultures exist within a society but they don’t mix with each other.

Question 2

list 2 implications of multiculturism

Answer 2

1. division
2. conflict

Question 3

what is Ethnocentrism?

Answer 3

using one’s own cultural values to judge people from another culture.

Question 4

what is cultural relativism?

Answer 4

Understanding a culture on its own terms without trying to impose absolute ideas of moral values, or measure cultural variation based on an absolute cultural standard.
the opposite of ethnocentrism.

Question 5

list the 5 ways cultural changes occur

Answer 5

1. cultural diffusion
2. acculturation
3. interculturation
4. independent invention
5. convergent cultural evolution

Question 6

what is cultural diffusion?

Answer 6

spread of ideas, beliefs, traits, practices, arts and technology from culture to the next.

Question 7

what is accultration?

Answer 7

forced imposition of one culture upon another, usually by a powerful group upon a weaker one.

Question 8

what is interculturation?

Answer 8

mutual exchange of culturation traits between cultures in long term close contact.
- extreme version of accultration

Question 9

what is independent invention?

Answer 9

the creation of solutions to a problem in our society.

Question 10

what is convergent cultural evolution?

Answer 10

development of similar cultural traits by group in similar environment.

Question 11

what is assimilation?

Answer 11

• a more extreme version of acculturation because the person lives for a much longer time in the host country.
• occurs when a minority group is completely absorbes into the majority culture so that it becomes indistinguishable from it.

Question 12

list 3 (examples) aspects of culture that has continued

Answer 12

1. official language
2. cultural practices
3. issues of superiority and inferiority

Question 13

list 3 (examples) aspects of culture that has changed

Answer 13

1. accessibility to education
2. change in roles in the family
3. change in the political administration

Question 14

who was the main contributor to the idea of creole society and what two ideas do they use?

Answer 14

• kamau brathwaite
• ideas of acculturation and interculturation

Question 15

who is:
- the main contributor of plural society
- what was his belief in relation to plural societies?
- whose theory did he base it off of?

Answer 15

• MG Smith
• he saw caribbean society as a plural society because we have many ethnic groups existing in one region
• J Furnivall

Question 16

what is plural society?

Answer 16

a medley of ethnic groups that mix, but do not combine.