SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3,5: Stamp Collecting, Eurocentrism, Relativism
14 Nov 2015
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Topic #3: chapter #3 & 5- cultural perspectives & organizations. A reward for doing the right thing . Symbols: cultural items that come to take on tremendous meaning within a culture or subculture of a society: can either be tangible (physical) or intangible. Values: are the standards used by a culture to describe abstract qualities such as goodness, beauty, and justice, and to assess the behaviour of others. Eurocentrism: involves taking a broadly defined european position to address others, and assuming that the audience shares that position. Reverse ethnocentrism: involves assuming that a particular culture that is not one"s own is better than one"s own in some way: sets an absolute standard that one"s own culture does not or cannot match. Culture relativism: an approach to studying the context of an aspect of another culture and can be spoken at. 2 levels: level of understanding, level at which cultural relativism operates is that of judging.
