SOC 12050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Afrocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Cultural Lag

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 12050
• Professor: Allen Lowery

Document Summary

We will deal with this issue more extensively in the unit on race and ethnicity. The most common, and oldest ways of dealing with multiple cultures is probably forcing assimilation and/or wiping out minority cultures. More recently, we have witnessed the development of pluralistic cultures in which the different cultures tolerate each other. Multi-culturalism is a more recent development that recognizes the cultural diversity of the. United states and promotes the equality of all cultural traditions. contrast, japan is the most monocultural of all industrial nations (especially english) cultural patterns. Multiculturalism stands in opposition to eurocentrism, the dominance of european. The united states is the most multicultural of all industrial countries. The 2000 u. s. census reports that 18 percent of people over the age of five speak a language other than english in their home. Some call for afrocentrism, the dominance of african cultural patterns in people"s lives.