Begin with an introductory paragraph that has a thesis statement at the end. The introduction
should set up your topic, giving a preview and summary of the analysis you will present in the
body of the paper. The thesis statement is the last sentence or two of the introduction and states
what the main point structuring your paper will be.
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Part I
Using the article by Miner (1956) and the feedback you received from your instructor on your
worksheet in Week Three, describe one aspect of your own culture from an etic perspective. See
the appropriate Sections in the Textbook in the List of Topics (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site., based on your chosen topic from Week Three, for information on how to
approach your paper from an anthropological perspective. You can describe American culture in
general, as Miner does, or you can describe an American subculture, such as a specific
geographical group (e.g., New Yorkers), a particular ethnicity (e.g., African Americans), or an
age-related category of Americans (e.g., millennials).
Use reputable statistics and/or scholarly research to support any factual statements. Do not rely
solely on personal experience or opinion.
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Part II
Refer to the article you chose for Part II of the worksheet assignment in Week Three and
describe an aspect of another culture from an emic (insider’s) perspective. You do not have to do
research beyond reading your chosen article; however, if you do choose to conduct additional
research make sure to use reputable statistics and/or scholarly sources to support any factual
statements. Do not rely upon personal experience or opinion.
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Conclusion
End with a concluding paragraph that reinforces your thesis. Summarize and tie together your
main points for the reader. Provide a brief self-reflexive analysis of what you learned while
writing this paper.
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Cultural relativism
is the idea that the
beliefs and practices
of a culture should be
understood within the
context of that
particular culture’s
background, history, and current events
surrounding it. We should not
ethnocentrically impose our own beliefs
and opinions, which are products of our
own enculturation
Cultural relativism is not the same as
moral relativism, however. As Crapo
(2013) notes:
"We need not, for instance, come to value
infanticide in order to understand the roles
it may play in peoples’ lives in a society
where it is customary. What cultural
relativism requires of us is simply that we
do not confuse our own feelings about
such a custom with understanding it. To
do the latter, we must investigate the
meanings the custom has for those who
practice it and the functions it may fulfill
in their society."(section 1.4, “Cultural
Differences: Cultural Relativism,” para. 3)
Final Paper Requirements
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Introduction
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The introduction should be one paragraph.
Explain the scope of your paper and set up the topics you will cover. Everything covered in
your paper should relate back to the introduction and thesis statement.
Draw from what you learned while identifying thesis statements in the Week Two Locating
Scholarly Resources assignment to help you craft your own thesis statement.
Review your instructor’s feedback on your thesis statement from your Week Three
Summarize Your Sources for the Final Research Paper assignment. View Accessing Feedback
in the Gradebook (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to see how to reviewing
your instructor’s feedback.
See resources from the Ashford Writing Center on Moving from Prompt to Thesis--How to
Turn a Prompt Into a Thesis (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and
Introductions and Conclusions.
Part I
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This section should be two- to two-and-a-half pages long.
Use what you learned in the “Locating Scholarly Sources” assignment from Week Two to find
your source in the Ashford University Library.
Weight your discussion evenly between Parts I and II. Do not let one discussion overshadow
the other.
Demonstrate a culturally relativistic perspective throughout this section. Do not use
opinionated or judgmental language.
Use the article by Miner to guide your own description. How would an anthropologist
describe the topic you've chosen?
Use reliable sources to support your analysis. Review the Evaluating Scholarly Sources
tutorial (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. from the Ashford Library.
Review the in-text citation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. every time you
include information you learned from one of your sources.
Part II
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This section should be two to two and a half pages in length.
Use what you learned in the “Locating Scholarly Sources” assignment from Week Two to find
your source in the Ashford University Library.
Weight your discussion evenly between Parts I and II. Do not let one discussion overshadow
the other.
Demonstrate a culturally relativistic perspective throughout this section. Do not use
opinionated or judgmental language.
Use the article you have chosen to guide your own description. How would an anthropologist
describe the topic you have chosen?
Include an in-text citation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. every time you
include information you learned from one of your sources.
Conclusion
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Your conclusion should be one paragraph.
The conclusion should relate back to your introduction and thesis statement. Reiterate what
you have covered in the paper.
Incorporate some of your self-reflexive analysis from the “Self-Reflexive Journal” entry you
created in Week Four.
Week Three Assignment Worksheet
1) Select one aspect of culture from the list. Once you've made your selection, please delete
all other options.
Gender
2) Select a source to use for Part I of the paper. You will be using your textbook and the
article by Miner for this part of the paper, but for this worksheet, include the source you
found through your own research. Review the tutorial on Evaluating sources and enter
your reference in the space below.
Reference entry in APA format:
Kaufman, J. C., & Sumerson, J. B. (2015). Editors’ introduction to the 2015 Special Issue,
Gender Stereotypes in the Media. Psychology Of Popular Media Culture, 4(1), 1.
doi:10.1037/ppm0000071
3) Include the reference for Part II that corresponds to the topic you’ve chosen. Copy and
paste the reference entry from the table (e.g., if you chose Education, you would use the
article by Jonsson for Part II).
Hoodfar, H. (1993). The veil in their minds and on our heads: The persistence of colonial
images
of Muslim women. Resources for Feminist Researchers, 22, 5-18. Retrieved from
http://www.umass.edu/wost/syllabi/spring06/hoodfar.pdf
Becker. A. E. (2004). Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji:
Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change. Culture,
Medicine & Psychiatry, 28(4), 533-559. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database
4) Summarize the main points from each of your sources. See this guide for help with
summarizing your sources.
Summary of your source for Part I (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least
300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.
In this assignment what exactly that I will go over that is covered within the article named
“Gender Stereotypes in the Media” Kaufman & Sumerson (2015) examination of the portrayal of
the female species on how they are predicted in a negative way into today’s media ways. One
will realize through most of ones studies and research, the results produced were not found to be
in favor of women. Today’s media is really good at only trying to be focused on nothing but the
negative aspects pf the female gender. But in turn will have a blind eye to anything positive that
women makes daily in the entertainment arena.
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Week Three Assignment Worksheet
Summary of your source for Part II (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least
300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.
In his literary research “The veil in their minds and on our heads: The persistence of
colonial images of Muslim women” Hoodfar, H. (1993). Hoodfar discussed the
struggles faced by Muslim women across the nation. The author ties at first educate his
readers on the factual definition of the veil and its purpose. By choosing to wear the veil
Muslim women are sometimes seen as inferior, uneducated and totally dependent on her
husband. This belief has led to the ill treatment and many different forms of
discrimination veil wearing women faced in the past and present day. Much of the uproar,
movements and different groups who seek to de- veil the Muslim women, does so
because of the misinterpretation and the perception that veiling equates to oppression.
5) Write a working thesis statement based on your sources. See this example.
Working Thesis Statement:
In this research paper I define the huge impact of society’s treatment, portrayal standards
and standards towards the female species. With that said, to take you down that path, I
will go over the article, Hoodfar, H. (1993). “The veil in their minds and on our heads”
and Kaufman, J. C., & Sumerson, J. B. (2015). “Gender Stereotypes in the Media”.
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Running head: SELF-REFLEXIVE JOURNAL
Self-Reflexive Journal
Rodrick Idrogo
Instructor: Lucy Lea Brown
Ashford University
7/10/17
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Introduction
The aspect of culture that I choose is Gender. Women and men are normally shaped by
culture. Gender relations and identities are two important aspects when it comes to culture.
Culture is the belief, behaviors, customs, ideas, and traditions that are normally passed one from
one generation to another, it has a way of modeling the way people are developing (Hoodfar,
1993). An outsider view (etic perspective) and an insider view (emic perspective) is used by
anthropologists while conducting a culture study.
Cultural Bias
It is easy to have cultural bias due to the different backgrounds. Some of the cultural
biases that I will have include, women were referred to as property. There are still communities
that refer to women as their property once the man has paid the dowry. They take it that they can
treat the woman in any way that they want. Sometimes this treatment becomes abusive. Another
bias is that where children of a certain gender are treated more valuable than the other. In some
communities the male child is treated better compared to the girl, in my opinion, both genders
should be treated with fairness and both accorded with equal education opportunities.
The Nacirema culture is characterized by a developed market economy. Most of the
people in this culture spend most of their time trying to accumulate more wealth, however, a
good amount of these gains and time is normally spent in rituals. This culture claims, the human
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body is ugly, and the majority of families have a ritual to try and change this. Using an etic
perspective, as an outsider looking in, the African- American culture is similar to that of
Nacirema culture in some ways. Most people find it hard to believe that the two would have
anything in common.
Conclusion
Studying human culture is important since it helps people to look into other cultures from
an up-close and a diverse perspective and understand their culture in another point of view.
However, it is easy to become biased while taking an objective look into another culture. Two
perspectives are normally used by anthropologists, which are the emic and etic perspectives.
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Reference
Hoodfar, H. (1993). The veil in their minds and on our heads: The persistence of colonial images
of Muslim women. Resources for Feminist Researchers, 22, 5-18. Retrieved from
http://www.umass.edu/wost/syllabi/spring06/hoodfar.pdf
Running head: SELF-REFLEXIVE JOURNAL
Self-Reflexive Journal
Introduction
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SELF-REFLEXIVE JOURNAL
The aspect of culture that I choose is Gender. Women and men are normally shaped by
culture. Gender relations and identities are two important aspects when it comes to culture.
Culture is the belief, behaviors, customs, ideas, and traditions that are normally passed one from
one generation to another, it has a way of modeling the way people are developing (Hoodfar,
1993). An outsider view (etic perspective) and an insider view (emic perspective) is used by
anthropologists while conducting a culture study.
Cultural Bias
It is easy to have cultural bias due to the different backgrounds. Some of the cultural
biases that I will have include, women were referred to as property. There are still communities
that refer to women as their property once the man has paid the dowry. They take it that they can
treat the woman in any way that they want. Sometimes this treatment becomes abusive. Another
bias is that where children of a certain gender are treated more valuable than the other. In some
communities the male child is treated better compared to the girl, in my opinion, both genders
should be treated with fairness and both accorded with equal education opportunities.
The Nacirema culture is characterized by a developed market economy. Most of the
people in this culture spend most of their time trying to accumulate more wealth, however, a
good amount of these gains and time is normally spent in rituals. This culture claims, the human
body is ugly, and the majority of families have a ritual to try and change this. Using an etic
perspective, as an outsider looking in, the African- American culture is similar to that of
Nacirema culture in some ways. Most people find it hard to believe that the two would have
anything in common.
Conclusion
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Studying human culture is important since it helps people to look into other cultures from
an up-close and a diverse perspective and understand their culture in another point of view.
However, it is easy to become biased while taking an objective look into another culture. Two
perspectives are normally used by anthropologists, which are the emic and etic perspectives.
Reference
Hoodfar, H. (1993). The veil in their minds and on our heads: The persistence of colonial images
of Muslim women. Resources for Feminist Researchers, 22, 5-18. Retrieved from
http://www.umass.edu/wost/syllabi/spring06/hoodfar.pdf
SELF-REFLEXIVE JOURNAL
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