49-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enculturation, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: 49-111
• Professor: Denunzio

Document Summary

Anthro tend to emphasis a very holistic comparative approach. They look at human at a very broad view. They analyze the entire people they do not look at isolated culture or. They look at how all those things interact with one another. Anthro does not look at changes but how it affected the people. This type of approach is the one that sets in apart anthropology from other disciplines. Maybe we want to get information to understand whatever we study. We have to use comparative analysis to compare differences and similarities. *this can make general conclusion about nature of culture. We are looking at different and similar cultures around the world that bring up to conclusion that there are differences ex: everybody has to eat but not necessary the same thing. The approach to the studied on the people behavior and believes that involves evaluating the culture on its own standards ( not according to the.