SOSA 2001Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Culture Shock, Cultural Relativism, Cultural Universal

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2001Y
• Professor: Gambold Liesl L.

Document Summary

The study and recording of human cultures; also, a descriptive work produced from such research. Okay to say in the book or ethnography, not a novel. Ethnographic research as a qualitative research tool is an approach to learning about the social and cultural life of communities, institutions, and other settings about the people in them. This methodology takes the position that human behaviour and the ways people construct and make meaning of their words and their lives are highly variable and locally specific. Humans are basically all the same, main differences stem from culture. Ethnographic writing constitutes a valuable and distinctive way of asking and answering a recurrent question (cid:858)(cid:449)hat does it (cid:373)ea(cid:374) to (cid:271)e hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)? (cid:859) What are the differences we can talk about being human. Make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange. First 2-3 months are really important, because after a while things become familiar to humans because we adapt.