cor 013 Flashcards
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Tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others; the ethnocentric person sees his or her own group as the center or defining point of culture and views all other cultures as deviation from what is normal.
ETHNOCENTRISM
Your culture is superior to other.
ETHNOCENTRISM
Meaning various aspect of culture such as mythological tales, folktales, legends, religion, songs, proverb, language, rituals etc. That promote the superiority of one culture over others.
ETHNOCENTRISM
Though this is unintentional kind of promotion of ethnocentrism, it is instilling the belief that “my race/culture is really better than the rest”, in so many ways in most of us, especially during childhood or teenage.
ETHNOCENTRISM
Fact that what is regarded as true, valued, or expected in one social system may not be so in another. Cultural relativism viewed those cultures have unique characteristics and should not be compared to others. It refers to the viewing of people’s behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
CULTURE RELATIVISM
They accept, they value other culture
It means of not about imposing judgement or assessing the worth of other culture.
Meaning cultural relativist view themselves as tolerant; they see other cultures not as wrong but as different
CULTURE RELATIVISM
(genetic) evolution occurs through genetic variation and reproduction, and involves the transfer of genes from one generation to the next.
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Gradual process in which something changes into different and usually more complex or better form.
EVOLUTION
Process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin.
NATURAL SELECTION
Occurs through the development of customs and languages, and involves the transfer of information either within a generation or across many generations.
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or an idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, is called a meme.
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Traits can be transmitted to a person only from parents
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Transmission can only occur from one generation to next
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
People cannot choose which genetic traits they inherit
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Data transmitted is encoded by genetic materials (DNA)
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Traits can be transmitted to a person by many unrelated people
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Transmission can be within or between generation and can be widely separated in time and space
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
People can choose to accept or reject some cultural traits
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Data transmitted can assume the form of written or spoken languages.
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Is an umbrella term for theories of cultural evolution and social evolution, describing how cultures and societies have changed over time.
SOCIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION
An American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and ecological-evolutionary social theory:
GERHAND LENSKI
His sociological evolution approach views technological progress as the most basic factor in the evolution of societies and cultures.
GERHAND LENSKI
Information about how to use the material
TECHNOLOGY
Changes over time in technology that give humans increased control over their environment.
TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION