Cultural heritage

Anthropologist’s ongoing determination towards fieldwork enhances their way of learning another culture while obtaining the native’s point of view. This term coined by Malinowski mirrors an emic perspective like the article. The context of going native for users and designers shown in the article eliminates boundaries progressively. To situate oneself in the ways of ethnographic research, one must carefully observe those you are studying. As stated in the article ethnography is conceived as, “a…

For Bourgois the creative aspect of street society is ‘the concentration of socially marginalized populations into politically and ecologically isolated inner-city enclaves has fomented an especially explosive cultural creativity that is defiance of racism and economic marginalization.’ (Bourgois, 2008:8) With this in mind, we look at how inner-street culture had exploded as a ‘new fad’ in America as Hip hop and rap were becoming more popularized and implemented…

Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. For centuries, many groups of people are guilty of this act, especially the white race. Because the U.S population is made up of people from hundreds of different ethnicities and over 13.3 percent of immigrants, it is not surprised that cultures will rub off on you. Even making the culture greater. But wearing a culture and disrespecting a culture are two different things. For example,…

Cultural globalization causes fewer conflicts which helps promote more equality. Many countries suffer from racial and gender biases. The diffusion of values from around the world allows for a more open society. People are exposed to different cultures, which in turn leads to less discrimination. They are more accepting of new ideas and are willing to adapt their beliefs to incorporate these customs. Cultural globalization is the spread of values around the world. The development of our species…

Final Exam Answer #3: Milton Gordon has stated that there are stages of assimilation, and those stages help out minority groups to integrate successfully within society. The study of assimilation has also been studied in conjunction with pluralism, because many people feel that the studies of pluralism and assimilation are similar. Assimilation and pluralism both deal with research that correlates with information pertaining to how various minority groups interact differently and engage…

in the first child’s possession of embodied cultural capital (Bourdieu 1986: 48). Embodied cultural capital is an accumulation of social skills and knowledge that helps a person fail or succeed in the dominating culture (Bourdieu 1986: 48). Children who possess embodied cultural capital thrive in school with invisible knowledge and skills that set them apart as “gifted” while those without these skills will struggle (Bourdieu 1986: 48). Embodied cultural capital is passed on from parents to…

Tiananmen Square Protest 1989 People protest for a reason, there is a problem with something and they want a change, they want to be heard. They can last for a long time, days, months and years until they get what they want. During protest things can get out of hand and people become violent and that’s where everything gets too far. Today protesting isn’t as bad as it was before, we try to result to agreements and there aren’t as many deaths as there were as before. In 1989 Tiananmen Square was…

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comes into play the moral claims are literally just feelings of approval and disapproval. Meaning that if discussion about gay marriage was to come up, and someone says that they approve of it, then they are saying that they approve gay marriage. Cultural Relativism is the moral beliefs of a culture. So, whatever the culture says is a right thing to do they can do. Yes, may be wrong in other cultures, but because they say it is fine in theirs then it is. The same thing goes…

Although in the United States the development of "anthropological" thought had been developed by different authors in the nineteenth century under the perspective called “Social Darwinism”, it is in the early twentieth century when Anthropology emerges as a modern discipline with a theoretical and methodological corpus that allowed its professionalization and inclusion within the university programs of the country. The greatest exponent of anthropology in the United States during the first half…