Chapter 1 Flashcards
(14 cards)
What is the definition of culture as defined by Richard Robbins?
The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things.
What is a microculture?
A system of knowledge or meaning characteristic of a subgroup within a larger society.
What is a tacit culture?
Knowledge or meaning that is not coded in language by a people, such as distances for speaking.
Blank is the knowledge or meaning that people are consciously aware of and can talk about.
Explicit culture.
What is naïve realism?
The belief that people everywhere see the world in the same way.
Blank is the belief and feeling that one’s own culture is best.
Ethnocentrism.
Blank is the idea that a specific belief or behavior can only be understood in relation to the culture - the system of meaning - in which it is embedded.
Cultural relativism.
What is culture shock?
A state of anxiety that results from cross-cultural misunderstanding.
What is society?
A group of people who share a common culture and locality.
Culture and blank are terms that have related but separate meanings (i.e. they are not interchangeable).
Culture and society. *Culture cannot exist without society, and every society has a culture.
What is an ethnocentric fallacy?
The notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture.
What are the four subdisciplines of anthropology?
Biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.
Blank is the idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about the beliefs and behaviours of members of other cultures.
Relativistic fallacy.
What is the difference between cultural and critical cultural relativism?
Cultural relativism makes arguments about human rights meaningless by legitimizing almost any behaviour, but critical cultural relativism poses questions about cultural relativism that poses questions about cultural beliefs in terms of who accepts them and why.
