Cultural Perspectives
Culture differences and perspectives in societies
Dennis Frost
Everest University Online Abstract
Culture is what people are born into and raised up around. There are many different cultures, culture diversity and so many different diets exist within these cultures. The three main sociological perspectives are Functionalism, Conflict and interactionism. Ethnocentrism is when a person has the mindset of finding their own culture or subculture superior to their own and take for granted the culture in which they were born. Culture relativism basically means that culture customs that are socially acceptable in one culture may not be socially acceptable to another culture. This paper will explain how all humans have some type of ethnocentrism …show more content…
Culture diversity can come in many other forms as well. These forms can range from greetings to a man or women having multiple spouses (Lexicon Universal encyclopedia, Vol. 5, 1985).
All humans have ethnocentrism which basically means that they have culture bias to the culture that they have been raised in. humans tend to see that their culture is superior to others and keep a closed mind with other cultures socially accepted behaviors and diets. This means that if a baby is born in the United States but adopted to a Russian family in Russia the child will accept Russian culture and look at the American culture as strange and not as superior as the Russian culture (Lexicon Universal encyclopedia, Vol.7, 1985).
Ethnocentrism can lead to intolerance and feelings of being scorned by others from different cultures. Ethnocentrism can also be used to logically create a unity of members of a culture (Lexicon Universal encyclopedia, Vol. 7, 1985). It is a good idea to try and avoid ethnocentrism as to not offend other cultures. Just because a culture has different acceptable behaviors and foods do not give anybody the right to think that their culture is superior to others
Dennis Frost
Everest University Online Abstract
Culture is what people are born into and raised up around. There are many different cultures, culture diversity and so many different diets exist within these cultures. The three main sociological perspectives are Functionalism, Conflict and interactionism. Ethnocentrism is when a person has the mindset of finding their own culture or subculture superior to their own and take for granted the culture in which they were born. Culture relativism basically means that culture customs that are socially acceptable in one culture may not be socially acceptable to another culture. This paper will explain how all humans have some type of ethnocentrism …show more content…
Culture diversity can come in many other forms as well. These forms can range from greetings to a man or women having multiple spouses (Lexicon Universal encyclopedia, Vol. 5, 1985).
All humans have ethnocentrism which basically means that they have culture bias to the culture that they have been raised in. humans tend to see that their culture is superior to others and keep a closed mind with other cultures socially accepted behaviors and diets. This means that if a baby is born in the United States but adopted to a Russian family in Russia the child will accept Russian culture and look at the American culture as strange and not as superior as the Russian culture (Lexicon Universal encyclopedia, Vol.7, 1985).
Ethnocentrism can lead to intolerance and feelings of being scorned by others from different cultures. Ethnocentrism can also be used to logically create a unity of members of a culture (Lexicon Universal encyclopedia, Vol. 7, 1985). It is a good idea to try and avoid ethnocentrism as to not offend other cultures. Just because a culture has different acceptable behaviors and foods do not give anybody the right to think that their culture is superior to others