culture bias

Define Culture

The rules, customes, morals and ways of interacting that bind together members of a society or some other collection of people

Define Cultural Bias

The Tendency to judge all people in terms of your own cultural assumptions. This distorts or biases your judgement.

Define Cultural Relativism

The view that behaviour cannot be judged properly unless it is viewed in the context of the culture in which it originates.

Define Ethnocentrism

Seeing things from the point of view of ourselves and our social group. Evaluating other groups of people using the standards and customs of ones own culture

Define Individualistic Culture

Individualistic culture is a society which is characterized by individualism, which is the prioritization, or emphasis, of the individual over the entire group.

Define Collectivist Culture

A collectivist culture is one that’s based on valuing the needs of a group or a community over the individual. Kinship, family, and community are extremely important. People tend to work together.

Define Etic

Refers to the study of a culture from the perspective of another culture.

Define Emic

Refers to the investigation of a culture from withinthe culture itself.