Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

Culture Diffusion

Degree of Change

Ethnocentrism

It can encourage racism, discourage integration efforts, increase hostility and conflict among groups and prevent changes that could be beneficial to all.

Ethnocentrism

It enhances the conviction that one's belief and behaviours reinforce the tendency to conform and defend one's society

Temporocentrism

It is the belief that one's own time is more important than the past or future.

Xenocentrism

It is the belief that what is foreign is best, that one's own life style, products or ideas are inferior to those of all others.

Ethnocentrism

It leads to nationalism and love of country.

discovery and invention;culture borrowing

The changes that occur within the society are brought about by ______________ , while the changes originating from outside are result of ___________________________.

Countercultures

This is a subculture that adheres to a set of norms and values that sharply contradict the dominant norms and values of the society of which that group is a part.

Countercultures

adhere to a set of beliefs and values that radically reject the society's dominant culture and prescribe an alternative one.

Subcultures

clusters of patterns which are added to the general culture of the society and yet distinguishable from it

Cultural relativism

different interpretations of the same or similar behaviour by members of different culture

Subcultures

important because they help us understand people

Ethnocentrism

increase resistance to change and encourage the exclusion of outsiders who may have something good to contribute

Culture Diffusion

the spread of a culture pattern from one group of people to another people and from one culture area to another.

Temporocentrism

the temporal equivalent of ethnocentrism

Cultural Relativism

views culture as the result of people's attempt to do what is good for them- each group's solutions to the task of survival are as valid as those of others.