ANTHROP 1AB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Midlife Crisis, Oscar Lewis, Social Inequality
10 Dec 2012
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Enculturation is when culture is passed onto infants and other members of that society through formal and informal process. Margret mead an anthropologist conducted fieldwork in the 1930s. Her findings indicated that: culture is developed in a person, it is not something they are born with, the way the infant was cared for leads to different personalities. Ruth benedict argued that culture promotes distinct personalities. Cultural configuration are traits that has been mixed to form patterns shared by everyone in that society. Ethnocentric classify cultures according to western psychological values and features. Reductionist: emphasize only one or two features. Totalizing: the use of local variation to build a more powerful national character: ex. The french , the english , the japanese *notice they have the* Image of the limited good: was proposed by george foster"s, this model co-exist with personality traits (ex.
