Culture And Ethnography Flashcards
Cultural knowledge
Learned, not biologically inherited
Shared as a social concept
Culture
The learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience
Personal knowledge
Mentally organized in the same way as cultural knowledge but not shared
Cultural knowledge is used to…
Generate behavior
Interpret experience
Tacit culture
Cultural knowledge that is outside our awareness
Explicit culture
Makes up a part of what we know, a culture that people are consciously aware of and can talk about
Ethnography
The work of discovering and describing a particular culture
Writing ethnography
Involves task of representing one system of cultural knowledge to an audience belonging to another cultural tradition
Subjects
People who are observed when experimental social or behavioral research is conducted
Respondents
People who respond to survey questionnaires
Informants
People who teach ethnographer savior their culture. They inform us about their cultural knowledge
Naive realism
Unconscious belief that reality is much the same for everyone, no matter their culture
Ethnocentrism
The belief and feeling that ones own culture is best
Culture shock
A form of anxiety that results from an inability to predict the behavior of others or to act appropriately in cross cultural situations
Cross cultural misunderstanding
Occurs when people with different cultural knowledge attempt to communicate with each other
