Sociology of culture

first aware of your own cultural values. Avoid generalizations and stereotyping people into small mind blocks. And before you get down to criticizing, take time out to understand the different cultural practices and circumstantial influences. The culture of fostering communication over presumptions will go a long way in not just making your workplace truly dynamic and secular, but your neighborhood…

The White Veil of Colonialism Europeans who practiced colonialism were motivated by the 3 C’s Culture, Capitalism, and Christianity, which determined the philosophy and the methods they used to conquer foreign lands and people. With each conquest, European colonist inflicted their perceived superior value systems with on their purpose of for colonization. Their cultural value system led to the idea that one’s race determined one’s rank in society. This is significant, because now we have this…

Nacirema”, one cannot help but be struck with the tone of derision affected by the author. It is impossible to contend with the work without addressing this, for this tone is very much the point. In deciding to impart the necessity of viewing other cultures from a prism devoid of ethnocentrism, Miner reveals much about the ways in which we, as a society, view ourselves. This should be viewed as the primary impetus for Miner’s article, because the danger in ethnocentrism is the tendency to engage…

leaves of the problem. Western Ideology concerning health is to mainly administer medicine to treat illnesses, instead of promoting preventive measures in patients lives, and by judicial means through national law. In Order to satisfy the dominant culture do implement our own research is that Indigenous people must grab the reigns over our economic future. A working economy is part of Self determination. Finance, and funding will determine what Indigenous tribes can and cannot do. Once we master…

positive cultural identification provides the basis for the development of self-confidence and a strong sense of belonging. Deeply rooted associations with a native culture, however, are not always easily obtained by all. Although most individuals can usually identify with one central race or ethnicity, those who are bridging more than one culture…

According to Orfors et al., (1998), visual sociology is an area of sociology concerned with the visual dimensions of social life. The starting principle of visual sociology is that what we see and how we record, interpret, and react to what we see in the social world is no less important than what we say and how we record, interpret, and react to what we say about the social reality (Zuev and Nathansohn, 2015). Therefore, one of the grounding ideas of visual sociology is that valid scientific…

The Cultural Authenticity Debate Who is paying attention to children’s literature and the potential negative messages that it could send to multi-cultural children? The debate about cultural authenticity continues, does it matter and if it does, can we solve this diemma so that everyone is satisfied? There does not seem to be a clear-cut method and some say that it would be a crime against art if we did. Should we let educators decide what is appropriate? Should the parents of these…

Culture awareness has a large influence on the personal culture and the culture intelligence of individuals. The more educated and aware of different cultures and influences the way in which individuals interact with each other. Most importantly being aware of the different cultures and the different beliefs of those who have come from a different cultural background prevents unnecessary conflict that can arise if people are uneducated on the cultures surrounding them. Being culturally aware if…

Current misconceptions of Muslim countries today in the West stem from the West’s belittling perceptions and depictions of “the East.” Many scholars’ writings, such as George Hegel, wrote problematic cultural representations of Islamic history based upon fictional, Western images of the “Orient.” Despite Fernand Braudel’s attempts in writing an improved history on Islamic civilization, he still suffers from a significant Hegelian slant that includes Orientalism and Idealism. In contrast,…

Due to increasing rate of cultural diversity in the United States, nurses in the healthcare sector must have a vast knowledge of different major cultures in the country. Transcultural nursing is advocated in many industrialized nations especially in the US where nearly every culture in the world is represented. Unlike decades ago, movement across countries and continents is much easier today. At the same time, poverty and disruptions of economic power caused by oppressive political governments,…