SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Xenocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism
13 Dec 2017
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Culture: which is shared beliefs, values, and practices, that participants must learn. Society: a group of people who share a community and a culture. Material culture: refers to the objects or belongings of a group of people. Nonmaterial culture: consists of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society. Examples: bus tokens/metro passes, cars, stores, places of physical worship. *material cultural items represent symbols of nonmaterial culture. Example: a metro pass is a material object but represents the form of nonmaterial culture of capitalism and paying for transportation. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism to one"s own cultural norms culture. Cultural universals : patterns or traits that are globally universal to all societies. Ethnocentrism: evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares. Cultural imperialism: the deliberate imposition of one"s own values on another. Culture shock: when confronted with all of the differences of a new culture, one. Cultural relativism: the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards.
