Essay about Cultural Conformity

Discrimination is when someone has a bias opinion on a specific crowd of people due to their race, sex, religion, or order of rank. This basically goes hand in hand with the phrase judging a book by its cover meaning the person with the negative opinion will not give the other individual a fair chance for the reason being they are being stereotypical and not thinking of the other person’s talent, or character. A modern day example of discrimination would be if a male employer were to compensate a female employee a lower pay due to her gender. At some time in everyone’s life due to today society, we have all been victimized by discrimination. Whether it may be a dirty look from a random person, or the way you dress, talk, and even look.

In the nonfiction memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy”, J.D Vance takes the readers on a rather difficult and persevering journey of his life. This journey ranges from his life with an abusive and unstable mother until his life as a Yale Law school alumnus. This book is the story about the perseverance and the struggle to “achieve the unachievable”. The plot takes place in Middletown, Ohio, which is home to the poor and uneducated working-class white people (Dessem).As a result, there are high rates of domestic violence, alcoholism and high school dropouts (Cheng). Vance was among the highly affected youths in his hillbilly community. The audience for this book can be described as people that have overcome their struggles, fans of

As a student, I am often troubled by the rigid routines of the school day, despite the fact that I am actually a very habitual person. The constant ringing of bells, lectures, bellwork, classwork, homework, each a daily practice throughout the school year. Although all of these components promote conformity, which will ultimately support the balance of school and societal norms, they also tend to threaten each student’s own unique characteristics. This then poses the question; to what degree should schools encourage conformity versus individuality? Certainly, a level of conformity is required to achieve a balanced society however, the overall structure of the school day and class, including the methods used to teach and mandatory classes,

Anthropologists have always had their discrepancies with the word culture and its background significance. There have been numerous definitions that have filtered through the field, yet not one that everyone can accept or agree with. Franz Boas, an anthropologist in the early 20th Century, and his students, had a difficult time figuring out the objective of what culture is. Culture is about learning and shared ideas about behaviour. Although Boas and his students had a slightly different idea in mind. They ultimately reached a conclusion, a definition of culture in their view that is a contradiction in terms. Boas sates that, “ culture was expressed through the medium of language but was not reducible to it;

The fight against racial discrimination in the America has continued, it may be said that the struggle has become particularly difficult in the 21st century. The laws and policies claim that only few forms of discriminations remain, in reality, racial discrimination is still existent in the US, it has continued to hinder the enjoyment of fundamental human rights by many individuals who belong to the minor racial and ethnic groups (Alexander, 2013). According to studies, racism and racial discrimination have deeply and lastingly influenced

In today’s time people have notice the spread of violence and constitutional controversy across the United States. People are beginning to feel betrayed by the political leaders we like to call the government. Discrimination is a problem that many people come across in everyday life. Discrimination is an action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice. The most known types of the discrimination people face today include race, religion and sexual orientation. (U.S Employment) Race discrimination includes someone treating another unfairly because he/she is of a certain race.

For centuries, racism has become the universal epitome of culture, despite the efforts of various civilizations, such as the Western and European to combat these indifferences among people. A race is specific social group that can be differentiated through various ways, from facial features and hair textures, to social norms and habits that constitutes to that group. These differences contribute to our uniqueness and humanity. Because people can be grouped by any number of differences, Man, lead by his ignorance, perpetuated the issue once social-hierarchies began to develop, splitting society to its various groups. As a result, social disparity from one’s upbringing became the common tendency to look down, or look up at people of other

In literature, there are four main types of conflicts: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society and, the toughest one of them all, man vs. himself. In the novels The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, both of the main characters have large conflicts with themselves. They battle with their conscience to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong. “So [they] beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 189). I see this battle every day in the high school world. There is always someone who breaks under peer pressure even though that person knows it is wrong. It’s the battle of conformity.

People have been changing their behavior or obeying someone else’s commands for years. This continues today in our everyday lives. Conformity and obedience seem similar but differ in several ways. Conformity is defined by psychologists as a change in behavior or belief to accord with others. Similar to this, is obedience. Obedience is defined acting in accordance with a direct order or command. Normally people conform to reap a reward or to avoid punishment. If we comply with a direct order or command it is considered obedience. Most of the time when people comply, it is to be accepted among others so they are not seen as outsiders. On the other hand, when we obey, we are obeying a command an authority figure

The popular culture particularly visual media affects our opions and attitude towards race and racial minorities group. our assumptions about race and racial minorities are both successeded and reflected in the streotypes presented by the visual media. i strongly believe in the George Gebners scientific examintaiton of televison that how we perceive ourselves and how we view those around us are affected by what we see on television. Visual media has such a heavy impact on us that even though they present a grossly distorted picture of the real world. people tend to accept more readily than reality itslef. the popular culture deals with symbolic realm of social life, the image which it creates, represents

Both of these studies lack population validity. Sherif study was conducted on American University boys so it isn’t representative of everybody. Alike Sherif’s study, Ash’s study conducted on all males. So both studies are androcentric. This means that the results of both experiments are only representative for males and don’t apply to women so it isn’t representative of the target population.

Culture shock is a psychological reaction people feel when they live for an extended period of time in another country or culture that is different than they are accustomed to. Many college students who study abroad and military families experience culture shock. It is a normal process, and most people go through it, to some degree, when they enter a new and different culture. The five stages of culture shock are: honeymoon, crisis, recovery, adjustment, and reverse culture shock. We have family friends who lived in Greece for three years from June of 2014 and returned in June of 2017. Prior to their three-year stay, they annually spent several weeks each summer in Athens. Their daughter, Maggie, experienced the five stages of culture shock.

Through my years of growing up I have moved a lot and never realized I was exposed to so much culture until I reached my high school years at Linden. I find that in my adolescence years I was brought to accept other people for their skin color, religion, and their different opinion on things. Moving to Linden, I was the one of a few students who seemed to really know about different cultures and was able to embrace them. I saw how I was different compared to the students and quickly learned, its hard to see people not understand or embrace other cultures besides their own; when that was the way I was raised.

Cultural differences effect many aspects of our daily lives. With the many different cultures embedded in the United States, it is important that everyone has an understanding and respect for the melting pot that is encountered daily in our communities, workplaces and schools.

Having to do new thing an embracing what may came with such are a pivotal issue in all of our lives. The umbrella in which all of these experiences fall can be described as culture shock. Culture Shock can be anything from things like being in a new person’s house to trying a new food. An experience where I personally went through culture shock was when I got my dog Peanut. Coming from a family unit with just me and my grandparents even a small dog was a huge change for me. There were I remember some ups and the downs that came with having a new pet. Generally there are four stages of culture shock That I and most will encounter which are the honeymoon,disenchantment,beginning resolution and the effective function stages.