Culture

Question 1

Ethnography

Answer 1

• Study of particular people and places.
• It is a more of an approach than a single research method in that it generally combines several research methods including interviews, observation, and physical trace measures.
• Good ethnography truly captures a sense of the place and peoples studied.

Question 2

Ethnocentric

Answer 2

• judging someone else’s culture from the position of your own culture.
• Viewing our own culture to be superior to that of others
• Can lead to cultural bias and prejudice
• Using one’s own cultural standards, such as norms and values, to make judgements about another culture.

Question 3

Cultural Relativism

Answer 3

• he practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one’s own culture.
• Judge and understand another culture from within their culture –
  1. No absolute right or wrong, but we have different cultures which are themselves valid.

Question 4

Cultural Transmission

Answer 4

• describes the passing of cultural elements (material, nonmaterial or both) from one generation to the next.

Question 5

Xenocentrism

Answer 5

• judging another culture as superior to one’s own culture

Question 6

Cultural Imperialism

Answer 6

• the deliberate imposition of one’s own cultural values on another culture.

Question 7

Ingroup

Answer 7

• the one we are connected with.
• “US”.

Question 8

Outgroup

Answer 8

• “THEM”
• Group we’re not associated with, ”group of people who we do not feel connected too”

Question 9

In-Group Favouritism

Answer 9

• we favour/friendly to people in our own group, but those in out-group we are neutral – we don’t give them favours we do to our in-group.

Question 10

Out-Group Derogation

Answer 10

• we are super friendly to our in group, but not friendly to out group – we discriminate.