Cultrual Bias

Question 1

Cultural bias

Answer 1

Judge people in terms of one’s own cultural assumptions, ignoring other cultures

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Seeing the world from one’s own cultural perspective, emphasising the behaviour of one’s own culture

Question 3

Cultural relativism

Answer 3

Behaviour can only be understood if the cultural context is taken into consideration

Question 4

Etic research

Answer 4

This is research from a specific culture which is then applied to other cultures to find universal laws, giving the studies universality

Question 5

Emic research

Answer 5

This is research based on specific cultures that’s used to understand that culture from within. It isn’t generalised to other cultures. Instead it studies variations in behaviour between groups of people