PAPER 3 - ISSUES AND DEBATES - culture bias INCOMPLETE

Question 1

what is culture bias?

Answer 1

• differences between cultures have not been considered properly
• tendency to judge people in terms of your own cultural assumptions, resulting in distorted conclusions
• concerned with how researchers own culture affects bias towards theories and research

Question 2

what are forms of culture bias?

Answer 2

• ethnocentrism
• imposed etic

Question 3

what is ethnocentrism?

Answer 3

• tendency to use standards, norms and values of ones own culture as baseline against how other cultures are evaluated
• see own culture as norm/desirable

Question 4

what is eurocentrism?

Answer 4

form of ethnocentrist thats particularly focused on western worlds viewpoint

Question 5

what is cultural relativism?

Answer 5

view that behaviour cannot be properly judges unless it is viewed in context of culture it originates from

Question 6

what are emics?

Answer 6

• culturally specific phenomena
• focuses on single culture to understand it from within a local context
• “insider perspective”
• cultural relativism

Question 7

what are etics?

Answer 7

• phenomena across all cultures
• focus is across multiple cultures - seeks to identify psychological universals
• “outsider perspective”
• ethnocentrism