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Soc. 001 1st Edition Lecture 3 I. Outline of Last Lecture II. ClickersIII. Bivariate TableIV. Reviewing Homework Assignment 1V. Empirical scienceVI. Inconvenient factsOutline of Current Lecture VII. ClickersVIII. Miner’s article, “Make the Familiar Strange” DiscussionIX. Textbook readingsa. Ethnocentrism b. Chagnon’s studyCurrent Lecture- Clicker Question 1: What is the fundamental belief of the Nacirema?o The human body is ugly and has a natural tendency to attract disease- Clicker Question2: What do the Nacirema do with the magic charms, after the charms have served their purpose?o Keep them, apparently because people believe the charms continue to protect them- Discuss the differences in Miner’s “Makes the Familiar Strange” article between the Nacirema’s cultural beliefs our own personal beliefs and ways of living  leads into cultural relativism (discussed below) where we ignore what we know from the true logic of the situation and look at it from the different culture’s perspective in order to understand their behavior and beliefs- Benefits of “making the familiar strange”:o You may notice something you didn’t notice beforeo Ask questions you didn’t think about asking beforeo Realize there’s no real reason, just habit and custom- Clicker Question 3: Which, if any, of the following are a benefit of making the familiar strange?o Making the familiar strange leads us to ask questions about why societies do things the way they do- Ethnocentrism: The process of judging other peoples and their customs and norms as inferior to one’s own people, customs and normsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o We tend to make a value judgment of people with differing customs from our own; we think our own customs are best Ex1: Europeans didn’t think that Africans were even fully human when they first encountered them while traveling on African lands Ex2: the Greeks thought that foreigners’ language sounded like a nonsensical “bar bar bar” stammering, so they called them “barbarians”o Positive side: brings people together and builds social solidarity; unites people within a society o Negative side: can lead to prejudice, discrimination, or even genocideo Sociologists feel as if ethnocentrism gets in the way of understanding; we can’t begin to understand a society by comparing it to our own, we must look at it from the context of their society- Napoleon Chagnon’s experience with the Yanomamo Indians of South America was at first a culture shock (the environment was the complete opposite of the “antiseptic world of the northern US”), and he couldn’t help but to consider them disgusting, uncleanly animals when he first arrived. But after living there for a bit, his person hygiene declined and he was able to better understand the ways of the Indians.- Cultural relativism: a method used by sociologists to try and overcome their ethnocentrism; defined as the belief that other people and their ways of doing things can be understood only in terms of the cultural context of those people.o We look at clues from other’s culture to understand their ways and


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