PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Culture War, Collectivism, Moral Authority
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Secularization: religion is on the decline and people around the world are discovering new secular and rational ways to make sense of their lives. But in reality, religion is growing in importance across the planet. The consequences of cultural differences in perceptions of morality underlie many of the past and future conflicts around the world (9/11 bombing, islam is criticized by christians). Three perspectives for making sense of cultural diversity: universalism, Universalism: the perspective that sees people from different cultures as largely the same and that any observed cultural variability exists only at a superficial level. People are the same wherever you go and the differences that we see across cultures are largely differences in term of conventions and are of little significance. Languages of cultures seem to be very different from one another but closer examinations of languages reveal that they do have much in common (universal word orders and grammar).
