CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CONCEPT OF SOCIALISATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The term ethnocentric means ____
A
The amount of people from ethnic minority living in a country.
B
The idea that all cultures are the same.
C
The idea that one culture is superior to another.
D
The idea that cultures have differences
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s ethnic in-group is superior and that ethnic out-groups are inferior. It also suggests the appropriateness of judging the world from the perspective of one’s own ethnic group.

Detailed explanation-2: -: having or based on the idea that your own group or culture is better or more important than others.

Detailed explanation-3: -the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethnocentrism is a belief in the superiority of your own culture. It results from judging other cultures by your own cultural ideals. Ethnocentrism is linked to cultural blind spots.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ethnocentrism is a belief that the norms, values, ideology, customs, and traditions of ones own culture or subculture are superior to those characterizing other cultural settings. The term was coined by William Graham Sumner in his Folkways (1906) and has long served as a cornerstone in the social analysis of culture.

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