ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Hegemony, Ethnocentrism, Acculturation
17 May 2017
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Practices and beliefs form a relatively coherent and consistent system. Symbol: a word, image, or object that stands for cultural ideas or sentiments. Culture organized the way people think about the world: Naturalized concepts: ideas and behaviours so deeply embedded in a culture that they are regarded as universally normal or natural. Ethnocentrism: a set of misunderstandings and prejudices base on the idea that ones own belief system provides the only accurate and moral view of the world. Cultural hegemony: the use of cultural beliefs to justify and support social hierarchy and political domination. Counterculture: an alternative cultural model within a society that expresses different views about the way that society should be organized. Worldview: culture-based, often ethnocentric, way that people see the world and other peoples. Culture contact: direct interaction between peoples of different cultures through migration, trade, invasion, or conquest (external)
