Part One: Culture And Ethnography Flashcards
Learned behavior
Cultural knowledge is learned
Explicit culture
Cultural knowledge people can talk about
Tacit culture
Cultural knowledge that lack words
Ethnography
Process of discovering & describing a particular culture
Discrete cultures
Subgroups difficult to differentiate
Microcultures
Study of discrete cultures; subgroups writhing larger societies
Detached observers
Work from the outside for other people’s behavior
Informant
Person on the inside
Respondent
Answers investigator’s questions
Naive realism
Belief that people everywhere see the world in the same way
Cultural shock
State of anxiety that results from cross-cultural misunderstanding
Ethnocentrism
Belief that ones culture is the best
Field work
Understanding life from a native point of view without imposing ideas
3 fundamental aspects of human experience
Cultural knowledge
Cultural behavior
Cultural artifacts
Symbolic interactionism
- Humans act on the basis of the meanings that the things have for them
- Meaning of things is derived from social interaction
3’ meanings are handled in an interpretive process used by the person’s encounters