Cultural artifact

expatriates in her first novel The Namesake. This crisis is dealt through immigrant’s families and their internal and socio-cultural relations with the people of the foreign country. It deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generation of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due to the language, dressing essence and food habits. But the second generation…

The Rise and Suspension of Subversion and Defiance: A Comparison of Culture in Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Culture is an ambiguous term that sociologists have attributed multiple definitions to. For the purpose of this essay, I will follow T.S. Eliot’s definition of all of the characteristic activities and interests of a group of people (Eliot, 1948). In this essay, I will compare how Dick Hebdige in Subculture: The Meaning of…

Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang is a memoir about the author when she was in middle school in communist China. The book details her family’s brutal experience during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s terrifying rule, the country of China fell into disarray and poverty and many people died. Chairman Mao brought up poor people and punished rich people. He made it so that no one had trust in one another. The following paragraphs will address characters’ desire to belong,…

social communication between the anthropologist and the indigenous people is an essential component to the entire nature of fieldwork. Yet at the same time, it is a root of the many problems an anthropologist can encounter while in the field. The cultural background of the anthropologist can often exceedingly contrast the culture he or she enters during fieldwork. Anthropologists have a plethora of different and speculative approaches…

huge amount of people since its introduction by authorities, and then leader Deng Xiaoping, in 1979 until it was officially phased out in 2015. It was made to be a short term measure which looked to create a culture of small families. Following the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976, China’s economy stagnated. During that time, China housed a quarter of the world’s population with two thirds of the population being under the age of thirty years known as The generation of baby…

ethnocentrism or cultural relativism? Define both, using examples, and explain your position. Ethnocentrism is a concept developed by William Sumner in 1906. Ethnocentrism is when a “group” uses there way of doing things to judge others. There are positives and negatives to ethnocentrism. On the positive side of ethnocentrism, it creates loyalties with a group. While on the negative side ethnocentrism can lead to discrimination. Cultural relativism is a way to look at a cultural without using…

following paper I will be discussing relativism, more specifically cultural and ethical relativism and weather I agree or disagree with that philosophy. Cultural revisits state that “no particular moral or ethical position can actually be considered “right” or “wrong.” Ethical relativism states that …”whether an action is right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the society in which it is practiced”. I agree with ethical and cultural relativism because there is no right or wrong moral…

The world people live in today is made up of different cultures co-existing with one another. The interactions between human beings of diverse backgrounds have made the world smaller as cultures blend every day. Various factors, such political, cultural, business, and environmental conditions, influence people to permanently settle in a different community. On the brighter side, individuals have been able to exchange their languages and ideas on making the world a better place. However,…

Freedom and safety are two luxuries humans value immensely. Of the two, Freedom is more important than safety. Tiananmen Square, “The Hunger games” and The Ukrainian Revolution validate why is it better to be free than safe. Tiananmen Square was an event that happened June of 1989 in Beijing, China. Students gathered at Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang and to protest an array of problems such as political corruption and the lack of civil liberties. Because the people of China…

would be terribly boring if we all agreed on the same things. What is considered to be right and wrong merely depends on society and cultural beliefs. With that being said, what may be correct in the moral aspect for one, may be totally despicable for another individual. This way of thinking correlates to relativism. There are several different types of relativism. Cultural relativism, descriptive ethical relativism, and normative relativism. There are many situations in which relativism and…