Cultural and ethical relativism are two extensive theories that are used to rationalize the differences amongst cultures in regards to their morals and ethics. Ruth Benedict, a significant American anthropologist from 1887 to 1948, moved from the theories of cultural relativism to the theories of ethical relativism, which brought major criticism to her work and philosophy’s. Cultural relativism is the view that one is born into a particular culture. Culture in this definition is the sum of peoples’
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For my ethnomethodological experiment I tested how my roommate would react if I ate food off the floor or licked things off the counter. A disclaimer: I made sure both surfaces were clean before I did this. I looked up the definition of ethnomethodology and it is “the study of methods people use for understanding and producing the social order in which they live” (Wikipedia). There are set social ‘norms’ that everyone accepts and breaking these can gain you some weird reactions. I searched for other
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Assimilation theory refers to the functioning within a society of racial or ethnic minority-group members who no longer possess any marked cultural, social, or personal differences from the people of the dominant group (2016). Racial groups lose their importance through assimilation. The different types of assimilation are cultural assimilation, marital assimilation, and structural assimilation. For example, a Hispanic man moves his family to America and stops celebrating Hispanic holidays such
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September 25th, 2017 Brandon Colle World Philosophy II, Fall 2017 IAEQ #1: Midgley’s “Trying Out One’s New Sword” Mary Midgley bailiwick moral isolationism, the view of an anthropologist and others suggest that we cannot criticize cultures that we do not know or understand. Midgley argues that moral logical thinking, it falsely assumes that cultures are separate and unmixed, whereas most are in fact formed out many influence. Mary Midgley says that the major power of moral sound judgment is in fact
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A long time ago people lacked knowledge on why certain things would occur. Without scientific answers, like we have today, the Ancient Greeks created their own answers about the world and what their place was in it. Over 2000 years ago the Greeks created the names and ideas of a myth and mythology. What they created were tales that are now known as myths. “A myth is a story based on tradition” (“Myths and Heroes” PBS.). Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines myth as, “a usually traditional l story
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In the article entitled “Is this generation really more informed?” by Palder and Syeda, talks about different opinions on whether or not Millennials are more informed than previous generations. In order to be a Millennial, you have to be around the ages of 13-32. Millennials are not more informed than previous generations, because they are given the choice of what to look at online, they are learning about unimportant information, and they don’t take the opportunity to learn more. Millennials
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particularly when a carefully orchestrated personality cult is added to the picture. In Liang Heng’s story, even the most fundamental social unit, family, was not able to keep off the intense political pressures during political campaigns in 1950s and Cultural Revolution. The most horrible thing is that traditional Chinese family values were totally destroyed under the red impacts. Stories happened in Liang Heng’s family is typical and universal in society during that period. There is no warmhearted feeling
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“Wow”. That was my first reaction to the YouTube Video “Living Without Laws; Slab City USA”. I wasn’t honestly expecting to see and hear what I saw but it opened my eyes. When I watched the people explain their lifestyle and the things that they did it shocked me for two reasons. One reason was because these people actually had the guts to leave the ‘comforts’ of the ‘normal world’ to live in the middle of a desert with little to nothing. I know if I had to live in that desert with the same amount
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• Define cultural and social capital and provide examples. Social capital consists of economic resources attained by being a part of a network of social relationships. Cultural capital is when you gain non-economic resources that enable social mobility. (Raskoff, 2014) In an educational environment examples of social capital would be social group involvement whereas, cultural capital would be knowledge, skills and education. Raskoff, S. (14 Nov 2014) “Social and Cultural Capital at School.” Retrieved
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The annual mean, spring mean, summer mean, autumn mean, winter mean, summer maximum and winter maximum of PM10 concentrations has presented in table 1. Table 1 shows that annual mean of PM10 in Ahvaz was 261, 323.78 and 727.65 µg/m3 in 2010 until 2012. Based on result Table 1, increase in the average annual concentration of PM10 in Ahvaz since 2010 until 2012. The table 1 shows that annual average of PM10 concentration in Ahvaz which is higher than NAAQS standards. The standard of PM10 according
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