ANTH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enculturation, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism
12 Sep 2016
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Skeptical: allows open interpretation, can be challenged. Seeks patterns, connections, and associations, distinguishing from randomness. Induction: processing of reason from specific to general. Scientific theories are widely accepted and supported by many. Concerned also with humanity, justice, culture, etc. The culture concept, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism. Culture: sets or patterns of learned behavior and ideas acquired as members of society. Learned: individually (family and kin through enculturation) and socially (institutionally through socialization) Cumulative and shared: transmitted among and between generations. Ethnocentrism: preference for own culture, belief system, race. Paradox of ethnocentrism: you can only become ethnocentric when you are exposed to another culture.
