Issues and debates Flashcards
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What is culture bias?
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A tendency to ignore cultural differences and interpret all behaviour through the norms of your own culture.
2
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What is ethnocentrism?
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The belief in the superiority of your own culture
3
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What are emic behaviours?
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The behavioural constructs particular to a specific culture
4
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What are etic behaviours?
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The behavioural constructs that are universal to all people
5
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What are imposed etics?
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When emics and etics get mistaken for each other
(basically generalisation based on idiographic research)
6
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What is cultural relativism?
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An attempt to counter ethnocentrism
- believes that all cultural beliefs and values must be understood and nothing is completely universal
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