Relative Deterritorialization

Have you ever wondered why someone act or feels the way they do? Many combined variables develops the way a person acts and feels. These variables come from learning, watching and experiencing different aspects of life. Ultimately, these experiences shape your behaviors and beliefs creating your culture. What happens when you go to another country, state, city or neighborhood? Do you act and behave like the people in these places? In the broad sense everyone acts the same in the regards to surviving; however, the details of how they live can be very different. When you go to a place outside you own culture, you will experience a change in culture. In this anthropology research, I will take an ethnologist approach to how my husband and step mother’s culture has changed within the American society. I will give examples of how these cultures are similar and different in regards to standard of living, education and employment opportunities. I will even discuss realities and problems that exit. All together I will give you a look at what it is like to experience a culture change from Mexico to America and the Philippines to America.

In the story, it is clear that the Strain sociological theory clearly presents itself. This theory argues that depending on person’s situation in the society, one reacts differently to the difficulties that face them in the achievement of their objectives. The theory categorizes people in the society to tow broad categories. These are the poor and the rich, with the poor being the ones who strain the most in an attempt to accomplish their

The earlier historical settings gave an opportunity to the Europeans to visit the primitive cultures of the world. As time progress the settling of the Europeans in different areas provided an accumulated firsthand knowledge which defined the means for existence for human beings. By looking around us we can observe the later stages on cultures that are as a result of the process that was initiated at the late age of colonization and exploration. The culture of the people has spontaneously been affected by this occurring changes thus causing cultural readjustment that has significantly contributed to transformation and new ways of social interaction. When cultures interact, then there has to be cultural exchanges that are experienced.

It is worth considering that each individual is developing within a society. That is why the role of the society in shaping people’s characters should not be underestimated. Numerous examples of the importance of the

Appiah’s thesis is about a homogeneous uniformity between an individual’s culture and his /her community. Appiah talks about the cosmopolitanism, the way cultures interact on a daily basis. He focuses on three main interrelated issues globalization, cultural diversity, and ethical consideration.

Although each culture views families and how they treat each other differently than other cultures, but when it comes to the traditional two-parent, nuclear family type, the relationship ties can be strained. Since the father would typically be out for the day working and the mother at home with the children, the mother spends the most time with the kids forming a stronger bond than the father might. Leading into the next function, economic cooperation, in which the work done at home is often not paid for resulting in the mother losing say or power over what occurs within their family. In addition, it compiles more tension and stress onto women due to 1950’s TV shows of how a family should be. In the article, “In Search Of A Golden Age,” Stephanie

“All human societies reproduce themselves in this way through a process of ‘naturalization’. It is through this process- a kind of inevitable reflex of all social life- that particular sets of social relations, particular ways of organizing the world appear to us as if they were universal and timeless,” (142).

Culture is defined by a community, it shapes the aspirations, how success is defined, the resources available to the people within. This further effects the beliefs and behaviors of the individuals. Societies where isolation is normalized cause the people within them to be more solitary and unable to maintain relationships (Cacioppo 74). When people are no longer able to maintain relationships, they turn to other forms of interaction. Cacioppo writes about the substitution of human interaction.

According to the article of “The Great Affluence Fallacy,” the author states the importance of communication and the coexistence between society. Isolating ourselves proves to create depression, as a matter of fact, it can also result to be unhealthy. The author provides several great examples of how our culture use to be more communal and how over the years that has changed.

“COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” is the motto the citizens of the World State adhere to. The motto stresses the need for everyone to work together, and discourages individualism. Their society believes that when an “individual feels, the community reels”, meaning when an individual begins to feel real emotion, society behaves in a disorderly manner. When one longs to achieve happiness and meaningfulness, they may abandon everything they know in the pursuit of discovering their passion. In this pursuit one may encounter a cultural conflict that is hazardous to themselves and society, thus creating disorder in the world in which they call their home.

The book identifies a common theme among these various topics. When it comes to analysing the society, the underlying principles remain the same. With the help of different data collections and analysis, it forces the readers to think sensitively as to how people should behave in a society. This is the reason why I found the book to be quite informative and interesting.

| The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people´s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “We”. In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to ‘in

This essay will discuss the influence of cultural dimensions on behavior. A cultural dimension is defined as a perspective of a culture based on its values and cultural norms. In particular, Hofstede’s cultural dimension of individualism vs. collectivism will be discussed. Individualism vs collectivism is defined as the preference of a person only being concerned about oneself and looking after oneself, compared to a person who wants to remain in a closely knitted network. These are some terms with definitions which will be used in this essay: the Asch paradigm, which refers to the studies conducted by Solomon Asch, in which he showed his participants different lines and asked them to verbally judge and respond as to what the length of the

Sometimes, rather most often, some questions, raised by the impuissant,are never answered; rather suppressed. Some are never raised as the powerless people, who do not possess the internal and external courage to pose the hundreds of unanswered questions regarding survival, have been in severe crisis of existence throughout their life span- living as inferior, in terms of every acknowledged and unacknowledged fundamental needs, among the superior-as an evidence and representative of furtive humanity. This work is an attempt to point out the psychological and physiological crises of Kuber and Yank, that are contributed by the conflicting factors and forces exist in the society where extreme dichotomy prevails between and among the people of two opposite classes : one is the upper class, that always endeavors to exploit the opposite class and, sometimes, homogenous class as well and the other is the lower class that is always exploited in different forms with the mechanical tools adopted cunningly, foolishly, intentionally, unintentionally and consciously or subconsciously by the upper class.

In traditional societies, to begin with, there is a strong fellow-feeling; everybody is considered a friend and is expected to act this way, in case of personal or family