SOC 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Ethnocentrism

• School: Kutztown University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 10CD
• Professor: Timothy O

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Cultures within larger cultures; the members of a subculture still retain or share many characteristic of the dominant/ larger culture o(cid:272)(cid:272)upatio(cid:374), age, ge(cid:374)der, what (cid:272)lass you"re (cid:272)lass, frie(cid:374)ds. The disorientation that people experience when they encounter a different culture and they can no longer depend on their taken for granted assumptions about life. The attitude or belief that ones own culture is superior to those of others. View of the world from the standpoint of european culture. View of the world from african culture (cid:862)our (cid:272)ulture is the (cid:271)est(cid:863) Knowledge: collection of relatively objective ideas and facts about our physical and social world: not consistent. Beliefs: ideas that are more subjective unreliable or unverifiable passed down to children: every single religion, heritage. Normative component: made up of morals and behavior. Institutionalized deviance: norm violation that is so prevalent it become socially acceptable. Its failure of ideal norms to become norms in reality.