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Technology, Culture Change and Diversity. Culture Shock. The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own . With culture shock there is a feeling of impaired ability to function due to 3 things:
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Culture Shock • The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own. • With culture shock there is a feeling of impaired ability to function due to 3 things: • The absence of familiar or comforting characteristics of your own culture • The presence of seemingly irrational, offensive or even hostile aspects of a new culture • The lack of ability, linguistic or otherwise, to gain cultural understanding rapidly enough to adapt to these changes. • DOES IT ONLY OCCUR WHEN YOU MOVE GEOGRAPHICALLY??
Ethnocentrism • The practice of judging all other cultures by one’s own culture. • Ethnocentrism is the view that one particular ethnic group is somehow superior to all others.
Cultural Relativism • The belief that the behaviours and customs of any culture must be viewed and analyzed by the cultures own standards. • What’s right for one culture might be wrong for another and that’s alright. • There is no absolute standard of right and wrong by which to compare and contrast morally contradictory cultural values. • Basically the opposite end of the spectrum from ethnocentrism
Cultural Change • In your textbook find the definition of and provide an example of the following: (make a chart) • Cultural Lag • Discovery • Invention • Diffusion • TRY AND COME UP WITH YOUR OWN EXAMPLES
Sub-Culture • A group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ in some significant way from that of the larger society • HUTTERITES
Counterculture • A group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles. • SKINHEADS
HUTTERITES: • Considered a SUBCULTURE because their cultural components differ significantly from those of the dominant culture: • Large communal group • Do everything for themselves • Strong faith in God • Reject worldly concerns • Joy of work • Faithfulness • Thriftiness • Tradition • Humility • Conservative views of the family • Life is centered on the community, every decision is based on what is best for the community • Non-assimilation: Communities are located far from other communities • They do however take advantage of technologies for farming and trade.
SKINHEADS • Skinheads strongly reject the dominant societal values by believing in racial group superiority, patriotism, belief in traditional roles of men and women, physical violence to express anger towards minorities. • Sometimes referred to as “Neo-Nazi” • Primarily young, white, working class males • Wear boots, jeans, suspenders, green flight jackets, chains and shaved heads • Some groups are highly organized, have leaders, hold meetings, distribute racist propaganda and attend rallies