Unit 3 - Social Inequalities
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:34:09
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 2 pages (481 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 2 pages (481 words)
Harper Collins Dictionary of Sociology. Ethnocentrism defines Ethnocentrism as "the attitude of prejudice or mistrust towards outsiders that may exist within a group (in-group) in relation to other (out-group)".... (Harper-Collin Dictionary of Sociology). There are three important levels of ethnocentrism: a positive one, a negative one, and an extreme negative one. The positive definition defines ethnocentrism as "the point of view that one's own way of life is to be preferred to all others" (Herskovits 1973: 21). …
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…cohesion of familiar personal and social elements. Ethnocentrism become a problem for everyone when we all start to think that people from a different culture and or part of the world should just be like us.
Resources:
Harper Collins Dictionary of Sociology. Ethnocentrism
Shimp, Terence and S. Sharma (1987), "Consumer Ethnocentrism: Construction and Validation of the CETSCALE," Journal of Marketing Research, 24 (August), pp. 280-289.
Ethnocentrism: http://www.iupui.edu/~anthkb/ethnocen.htm
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