Etnosentrisme

Etnosentrisme (fra gresk/latin: «sentrert om sitt eget folk») betyr at man vurderer andre samfunn ut ifra sitt eget. Begrepet ble introdusert av antropologen William Graham Sumner.^[1])

Eksempler på dette kan være levealder, BNP, demokrati, moralske vurderinger og lignende.

Referanser

^ William Graham Sumner: Folkways. A study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals; Ginn and Company, Boston, New York u.a. 1906/genoptryk; Cosimo, New York 2007;
citat s. 13: „Ethnocentrism is the technical name for this view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.“

[1] William Graham Sumner: Folkways. A study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals; Ginn and Company, Boston, New York u.a. 1906/genoptryk; Cosimo, New York 2007;
citat s. 13: „Ethnocentrism is the technical name for this view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.“

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