Visual anthropology

How does your culture, religion, and life experience change the way you see the world? There is so many amazing things about culture. The different holidays we celebrate, the way we view situations, and religions we turn to in need are all things that only happen because of culture and life experiences. Your culture effects the way you see the world because of how you were raised, religion you follow, and over all the different types of people you have had the pleasure, or displeasure, of…

Being an African American 15 year old girl has affected the aspects of my Cultural Identity. It has shaped myself as a person and my personality. My cultural identity brings out the fact that i enjoy doing many things including things that i may not like to do. FIrst, what does it mean to be a black girl? Most people describe black people as ghetto. But as for me, i describe African American people as normal. It is really embarrassing to me when I see African Americans being ghetto. Also, when…

Cultural identity is a part of my everyday life. I don’t often think about it, if not, at all. It’s just like speaking your language; you do it naturally. The cultural heritage that we’re exposed to from everything around us, shapes our cultural inheritance. We have the decision to choose whether we want to do something; those choices can make or break us. It all comes down to who you truly want to be as a person; whether you make decisions on your own or make decisions encouraged by the people…

Many biological and social anthropologists argue race is a cultural construct. We can’t define acts of injustice by examining race as independent of biological/genetic variations. Scholars discovered race didn’t exist in the 17TH century but race originated as a folk idea-it was a social invention, not a product of science. More than 400 years ago in the 1600’s Englishmen came to America seeking fortunes. They planned to overthrow the Indians by enslavement and obtain their wealth. Unfortunately…

Critical thinking is an important concept that should always be applied when talking about our society’s social issues. Alas, it is a very hard task to undertake considering our biased worldview due to cultural hegemony. Cultural hegemony is a concept in which the ruling classes within our society dominates all other classes by imposing their own perspective, therefore making their beliefs (whether about fashion, religion, political views, etc.) become the cultural norm. By definition, cultural…

Clash of Cultural Appreciation Ideals Culture appreciation is a controversial topic in America it is often easily outburst by many different opinions, the different opinions arrive from not having a standard guideline that outlines a common definition of cultural appreciation and how to go about it. In his Article “This is How We Don’t: The Raised Stakes of Cultural Appropriation,” Rex outlines how he views cultural appreciation to be nothing more but stealing one’s identity, he refutes author,…

“In some Caribbean islands, braids were used as a way to escape slavery by forming intricate braid patterns that signified a map. These customs have been passed down to us which is why we take pride in the care of our hair and the art forms we can create through braiding." This quote shows the background of braids. They are not just used for style and appearance. Cultural appropriation is a concept dealing with the adoption of the elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture…

Sociological theory is a set of assumptions, assertions, and propositions, organized in the form of an explanation or interpretation, of the nature, form, or content of social action. Sociological theories are the idea that society creates conditions where a person commits a crime or that society influences people to commit crimes. It is the idea that crime is a social problem not an individual one (Sociological theories of crime, 2018). One of the major common ideas among sociological…

In his book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1984) Pierre Bourdieu argues that cultural choice is related to social position that each individual holds within society. He argues that our everyday decisions are based on symbolic moments that we experience based on our understanding of good taste. His book is based on surveys and interviews conducted in France 1963. I will be critically analysing Distinction and Bourdieu’s Forms of Capital (1986) as well as many other…

Society influences people throughout the history of the United States no matter wha era you come from. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the play The Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller society is reflected in the way the characters act. Different symbols are used in The Great Gatsby to show the 1920’s society. The 1920’s was a big change in the way society started to act and the way people went about life. The Death Of A Salesman took place in the 1940’s which was post…