Sociology: Attitude Towards Cultural Variations

Sociology: Attitude Towards Cultural Variations

1. Ethnocentrism

• practice of judging all other cultures by one's own culture
• based on assumption that one's way of life is superior to all others
• forms of ethnocentrism

           - positive ethnocentrism: school songs, national anthem, pledge to flags/patriotism
          - negative ethnocentrism: customs, dress, eating habits, religious beliefs is marked differently from those of dominant group members

2. Cultural Relativism

• inverse/opposite of Ethnocentrism
• practice of judging other cultures by his own context

3. Xenocentrism

• preference the products, styles, ideas, or ideas of someone else's culture rather than of one's own (colonial mentality); Xeno means foreign

4. Cultural Shock

• when you are confronted with other culture, there is a feeling of anxiety and disorientation

5. Cultural Lag

• maladaptation
• maladjustment
• there is rapid improvement when something was not adjust to it