If German stadialists conceived historical evolution ethnocentrically in a philosophically idealist manner, the Anglo-American counterparts did this with a decidedly empiricist bent.

The conference attendee suggested that she would be unable to bring such an image back to her country and questioned the ethnocentrically restrictive nature of the image.

As a result they finally transcended the etic-emic divide that had separated researchers ethnocentrically from a deeper understanding of their subject matter, and the technique of participant-observation was finally fully embraced with respect to anomalous phenomena (Luke, 2010a).

In contrast, a unidimensional view of acculturation equated acculturation, ethnocentrically, with assimilation in the sense that it is based on the assumption that newcomers desired to adopt the mainstream cultural values even in the expense of shedding their own culture (of.

The purpose of the exercise is to encourage students to think more broadly and "contextually" and less ethnocentrically about human development; to appreciate the roles teachers and human service professionals play in the lifenets of others, and to understand the logic behind the lifeways of rural, indigenous, immigrant, working class, and poor Americans.

And when a group is internally united by its ideology and ethnocentrically opposed to outsiders, it is easy to see how it might want to impose its ideology on others--including both potential members, and opponents such as scientists.

Actually, every nation teaches its history ethnocentrically. If you learned the national history in Sweden, they'd be emphasizing the great things about Sweden.

It is a reasonable complaint that in Western academic traditions, study of non-state law and non-Western traditions, systems, and points of view has been ethnocentrically marginalized.

Rather, assimilation has an ideological base: it is a process of generalisation, inwardly and ethnocentrically oriented, one that seeks to incorporate Indigenous or foreign situations into White frameworks of thought and action.

The current dominant version of the history of Indians in the United States narrates as something like this: Europeans ethnocentrically did not believe that Indians used their land properly and therefore felt justified in taking it; but they sincerely wanted to help Indians become civilized, after which (they promised) Indians could become citizens.

It often seems to be ethnocentrically focused on the triumph of the West, and this dream, this illogical, undifferentiated swirling mass of need and desire has driven the creation of our own remarkably enduring continuity of interlocking tropes and ideas.