Economic anthropology

“What’s the difference between the US and yogurt? If you leave yogurt alone for 300 years, it develops a culture (Chrissy).” The internet if full of these jokes – claims that the United States has no culture of its own – but do these people realize what culture even is? Culture is what shapes, not only our perception, but the actually identity of the world as we know it. Culture is everything that makes us human and contours how we live out our humanity. It is impossible to exist without having…

The Effect of Cultural Competence on Antepartum and Postpartum Nursing Care Just as nursing care has evolved over the decades since Florence Nightingale, so has the patient population around the world. During the past forty years, the United States has become drastically more racially diverse (Lewallen, 2011, p. 5). Immigrants have taken their own cultures and values to other places, causing the population to have mixed cultures, beliefs, religions, traditions, and customs. Particularly in…

How does one’s culture affect their lives? Can culture influence one’s behavior? How do people escape the shackles of society? These questions are all explored in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book contains a heartwarming story about two women confined by Afghan culture. In this novel, Hosseini emphasises the struggles women have to endure such as arranged marriage, lack of freedom, and war due to the conservative culture in Afghanistan. Arranged marriage is common in…

The definition of sociology is “the study of human social relationships and institutions. It is such a broad area of study, that there is no possible way to break it down in to few categories. Sociologists trace their studies back to the Scottish Enlightment at the end of the nineteenth century. Since 1960, there have been so many changes in society, that it is now difficult to assess likely trends. One of the big differences between cultures is the different foods that we are accustomed to.…

Determining ancestry involves various techniques of tracing your lineage. Some societies trace the ancestors on both sides of the family which is often referred to as bilateral kinship. While others just trace the ancestors who are relative to one side of the family. This is usually a unilinear descent system. In the following paragraphs, differences between two unilineal systems will be discussed and also how these systems help not just the individual but also their society. Lineage is…

Theorizing Media’s blog, entitled “Race and Representation,” initiates the discussion of racial stereotypes and their counterparts, and challenges all of society to consider the accuracy of these labels. The image shown by the blog argues that changes need to be made throughout American society in regards to the social impression of African Americans and it properly displays the fact that stereotyping is a behavior that continues to be an ongoing problem in America. The blog shows an image of an…

cultural empowerment is not central to King’s agenda, explain why. Cultural empowerment refers to the way of life, that talks about food,language, clothes, and spirtual ideas. Empowering others by teaching and telling them the stories and traditions of your family, it also refers to the freedom of being to practice your own culture, while also respecting other cultures. This broad definition/understanding of cultural empowerment leads me to believe that empowerment is central to Kings essays.…

“A key in addressing primary prevention of mental health in [immigrant youth] is to shift the paradigm to focus on resiliency and on strength-based approaches rather than on risks and deficits” (Cohen, Chavez, & Chehimi, 2010, p. 389). This approach can actually work with any culture or ethnic background because when exploring the needs of the patient a full analysis of their background will take place. Culturally rich backgrounds do not just apply to immigrants or people of color; each…

Andrew Tran SOC 110B – Clark 11 October 2015 Ursinus College Paper One: Making the Familiar Strange We often define our lives as human beings most in our everyday interactions with other people. Indeed, in one of our major readings this semester, Dalton Conley’s You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction To Thinking Like A Sociologist, he defines culture as all of our societal pressures that are acting on us (“everything but nature”) . Outside of very specific contexts, the notion of eye…

I read the article Wisdom Sits in Places, about the White Mountain Apache tribe located in Eastern Arizona. The purpose of this article was describing how Anthropologist Keith Basso worked with two gentlemen from the Apache tribe in recording a topographic map of the area using Apache words. The Apache had named theses areas decades ago but the names were never recorded on a map for other tribesmen to read and learn. Mr. Basso traveled with his companions during the hot and humid…