UCSP Power Point Presentation for WEEK 3
- 1. UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS By Jayzer Paul Zambra
- 2. DESCRIBE ME! The class will be divided into three groups, and each member of the group will give their description of the pictures.
- 3. ANALYSIS QUESTIONS 1. What do you see in the pictures? 2. Can you describe what the scenario is in every picture? 3. What problem is being emphasized in every picture?
- 4. OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson, 80% of the students should be able to: a. differentiate cultural relativism and ethnocentrism; b. demonstrate their understanding of cultural relativism in attaining cultural understanding through role playing; and c. reflect on the importance of cultural relativism in fostering respect, acceptance, and understanding of diverse cultures through a reflection paper.
- 6. • Cultural relativism is a principle that an individual person’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture. • It was established and accepted in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students.
- 7. • It refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. Instead, we should try to understand cultural practices of other groups in its own cultural context. In other words, right and wrong are culture-specific. What is considered moral in other society may be considered immoral in another, and since no universal standard of morality exist, no one has the right to judge another society’s customs to be correct or incorrect.
- 9. • Ethnocentrism, in contrast to cultural relativism, is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture. • According to William G. Sumner, ethnocentrism is defined as the “technical name for the view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.”
- 10. • He further characterized it as often leading to pride, vanity, beliefs of one’s own group’s superiority and contempt of outsiders. • Ethnocentric individuals born into a particular culture that grow up absorbing the values and behavior of the culture will develop a worldview that considers their culture to be the norm (standard). They judge other group or culture specially with concern to language, behavior, custom religion etc.
- 12. The class will be divided into three (3) groups. Each group will present a scenario demonstrating their understanding in cultural relativism in attaining cultural understanding.
- 14. SHORT RECAP! 1. What is cultural relativism? 2. What is ethnocentrism? 3. What is the difference between cultural relativism and ethnocentrism? 4. How will you show respect to other’s culture? 5. Is showing respect to other culture necessary? Why or why not?
- 15. REFLECTION TIME! REFLECT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM IN FOSTERING RESPECT, ACCEPTANCE, AND UNDERSTANDING OF DIVERSE CULTURES. FOLLOW THIS FORMAT! TITLE INTRODUCTION (3-5 SENTENCES) BODY (2 PARAGRAPH, 3-5 SENTENCES EACH) CONCLUSION (3-5 SENTENCES)