CULTURE BIAS
ISSUES AND DEBATES
- Created by: katiewho
- Created on: 09-03-17 13:30
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- Culture Bias
- Definition
- Only taking into account one culture and applying it to others
- Emics
- Ecological validity
- Investigation of culture from within the culture
- Behaviour specific to a single culture
- Applied to only one culture
- Behaviour specific to a single culture
- Likely to be ignored and misinterpreted by researchers from another culture
- Differences between cultures
- Etics
- Applied to all cutures
- Universal for all people
- Similarities between cultures
- Imposed Etic
- Construct from one culture is applied wrongly to another
- E.g. Facial expressions
- Construct from one culture is applied wrongly to another
- Applied to all cutures
- Ethnocentrism
- Evaluate others culture based on your own
- Can lead to racism
- E.g. regard traditions as irrelevant
- Cultural Relativism
- Regarding the culture's values (etc) from the viewpoint of that culture
- Used to avoid ethnocentrism
- Examples
- Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- Not appropriate for use outside US/UK as it is Western (ethnocentric)
- IQ Testing
- IQ tests from Western can't be used elsewhere
- What counts as intelligence varies from cultures
- Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- Evaluation
- Nobles: Western psychology has been used as a tool for opression
- Equal opportunity legislation
- Definition
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