HREQ 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margaret Mead, Arapesh Languages, Ethnocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1040
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

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Test: 20 mc and 1 long answer - to demonstrate knowledge of all topics we have learned so far. Broad point (issue) - explain (with concepts) - examples (evidence) A) de ne b) explain how it works c) examples. Culture is one of the most complex concepts. Culture is one of the main mediums or media through which power is exercised - if you can control a persons culture, you can control them. Values, beliefs and behaviours, construct our social realities. What people believe determines their nature - how culture determines human nature. Culture is a form of second nature. We"re members of multiple cultures - our parents, canada, consumer culture - man layers to culture. Essence of culture is to cultivate, to sustain, to preserve. Humans are imitated creature - we take on nature of what we are raised by. Ethnocentrism - believing your culture is a standpoint to judge other culture.