Introduction to Sociology

ethnocentrism: the practice of evaluating another culture according to the standards of one’s own culture
xenocentrism: a belief that another culture is superior to one’s own
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Introduction to Pop Culture, Subculture, and Cultural Change

What you’ll learn to do: examine pop culture, subculture, and cultural change

Figure 1. Netflix is an American subscription based streaming service for television and movies, media considered part of popular culture. (Photo courtesy of freestocks.org/unsplash)

It may seem obvious that there are a multitude of cultural differences between societies in the world. After all, we can easily see that people have different beliefs and engage in different practices from one society to the next. It’s natural that a young woman from rural Kenya would have a very different view of the world from an elderly man in Mumbai—one of the most populated cities in the world. Additionally, each culture has its own internal variations. Sometimes the differences between cultures are not nearly as large as the differences inside cultures. You’ll examine these differences in this section.

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