L4. IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM IN ATTAINING CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING Flashcards
The principle of regarding and valuing the practices of a culture from the point of view of that culture and to avoid making hasty judgments.
Cultural Relativisim
The view that ethical and social standards reflect the cultural context from which they are derived.
Cultural Relativism
It is a belief that maintains it does not matter whether cultures are either equal or different because equality and similarity do not necessary translate to real or imagined inferiority/superiority of cultures.
Cultural Relativism
The theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms of one’s culture. That is, whether an action is right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the society in which it is practiced.
Ethical Relativism
It is coined by William Graham Sumner.
Ethical Relativism
Who coined Ethical Relativism?
William Graham Sumner
It suggests that the very process of makes culture enduring and durable also explains an equally recalcitrant attitude in the (non) appreciative of the cultures of other people.
Ethical Relativism
It means people, nation, or cultural groupings
Ethno
It means “center”
centric
The tendency of each society to place its own cultural pattern at the center of things.
Ethnocentrism
The practice of comparing other cultural practices with those of one’s own and automatically finding those cultural practices to be inferior
Ethnocentrism
It is a belief that your native culture is the most natural or superior way of understanding the world.
Ethnocentrism
It is a universal human reaction bound in all known societies, in all groups, and in practically all individuals.
Ethnocentrism
FUNCTIONS OF ETHNOCENTRISM
Firstly, Ethnocentrism encourages the _________ of a group. Believing that one’s own ways are the best encourage a “we” feeling with associates and strengthens the idea that loyalty to comrades and the preservation of the basis for superiority are important values
solidarity
FUNCTIONS OF ETHNOCENTRISM
Second, ethnocentrism hinders the _______________ or the _____________ between groups. If the ways of own group are best, there is little incentive to interact with “inferior” groups. In fact, attitudes of suspicion, disdain, and hostility are likely to be engendered.
understanding, cooperation
FUNCTIONS OF ETHNOCENTRISM
Third, conflict of course often leads to _______ ________. In that sense, ethnocentrism becomes a vehicle for the promotion of social change. It does so however, through encouragement of its peaceful evolution.
social change
This refers to a preference for the foreign. It is the exact opposite of ethnocentrism. It is characterized by a strong belief that one’s products, styles, or ideas are inferior to those originating elsewhere.
Xenocentrism
It is the fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange.
Xenophobia
It refers to biological differences that distinguishes humans and other animals into two main categories: male and female. Biological differences between males and females include variation
Sex
It encompasses all the social, cultural, psychological characteristics that a culture assigns to males and females. It categorizes whether which behaviors and traits are appropriate for men and women. There are two main types: masculine and feminine
Gender
It is defined as culturally-assigned tasks and activities to sexes
Gender role
It tells us how gender and gender roles are a product of one’s biological sex
Sex - Gender System
It refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same economic privileges in a society. These privileges are due to inherited wealth and/or the occupational status of the breadwinner in the household
Socio - economic status
It is the expression of the set of cultural ideas held by a distinct ethnic or indigenous group.
Ethnicity
