UCSP Week 3 DAY 1 Concept of Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism
UCSP Week 3 DAY 1 Concept of Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism
UCSP Week 3 DAY 1 Concept of Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism
CULTURE,
SOCIETY AND
POLITICS
MELC: Explain the importance of
cultural relativism in attaining cultural
understanding
Aspects of Culture
Social Shared
Gratifying
and Culture Learned
Idealistic
Continuous Transmitted
and
Cumulative
CULTURAL
RELATIVISM
vs.
ETHNOCENTRISM
Photo Analysis:
Processing Question:
1.What have you observed from the
pictures?
2.Have you encountered/witnessed these
kind of situations?
3.How can you relate from these
illustrations?
Activity: Tableau
Group 1: Ethnocentrism
Group 2: Cultural relativism
Group 3: Xenocentrism
Group 4: Xenophobia
Group 5: Culture Shock
ETHNOCENTRISM
❖ethno = people, nation; centric = center
❖The view that one’s group is superior compared
to another
❖In an ethnocentric viewpoint, a group is
considered as the center or core of everything.
❖The tendency to evaluate other cultures in terms
of one’s own and to conclude that other cultures
are inferior, barbaric, or immoral.
❖Ethnocentric- thinking your own culture is better
than another culture.
• Ethnocentrism is the view that one’s
own cultural elements such as norms,
values, ideology, customs, and
traditions are dominant and superior to
others.
• Ethnocentrism is a technical name to
see things in which one’s own cultural
identity is the center of everything
over which all must be scaled, rated,
and referred to.
• This perspective led to conceited
behavior and the belief of the
superiority of one’s own group with
great prejudice to outsiders.
Ethnocentrism in Moderation has the positive
effects:
1. promotes solidarity and loyalty
2. develops cultural pride
Ethnocentrism in Excess has the negative effects:
1. leads to conflict with groups considered inferior
2. oppression
3. discrimination
4. bullying
5. racism
6.genocide
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
❖refers to an objective analysis of one’s own culture
– seeing and understanding of one’s beliefs and
traditions from his/her own point of view.
❖It also entails not to judge the practices of others
based on your own culture, hence, respecting in
their own cultural context.
❖Cultural Relativism is belief that culture is relative
and different from one another, thus, it is important
to respect other culture.
❖No culture should be considered better than
another.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
According to James Rachels
(2003), the following claims have
all been made by cultural
relativists:
1.diverse moral conduct
2.subjective standards among
societies
3.tolerance among all culture
4.RESPECT and TOLERANCE
CULTURAL RELATIVIST
XENOPHOBIA
- is the fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange.
CULTURE SHOCK
The feeling of stress and anxiety that most people experience
when encountering a culture different from their own.
As a student, how
relevant is the
knowledge you gain
from how you
interact to your
community?
Assessment: Identify the following.