NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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judging other cultures in terms our own standards
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a subgroup of people that still follow the dominant culture
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a group that goes against the norms of the dominant culture
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viewing everybody and everything as equal
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnocentrism occurs when one has the belief that their own cultural group is superior to others. Individuals who are ethnocentric will believe that their culture’s beliefs, ideas, values, and practices are correct, and they use the standards in their own culture to assess other cultural groups.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnocentrism is the measuring and judging of one culture by another culture. This can be either a positive or negative judgment about the difference between the beliefs of the two cultures. Ethnocentrism is also believing in the inferiority of other cultures compared to the superiority of one’s own culture.
Detailed explanation-3: -In social sciences, ethnocentrism means to judge another culture based on the standard of one’s own culture instead of the standard of the other particular culture.