Anthropology Terms

The two terms I chose were: Enculturation and Cultural relativity.

 Enculturation is the process of teaching an individual the norms and values of a culture through learning the language, customs, biases, and values of the culture. Parents and other authority figures in younger children's lives are primarily the initiators of this process as they steer the children towards beliefs and activities that will be socially accepted in their own culture. Through this process these authority figures definitively shape the child’s view on life. Enculturation results in the establishment of our own individual behaviors and beliefs with different interpretations of these beliefs. 
An example of more formal enculturation is, when we in America are taught the amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Another example of more informal enculturation is when we're younger and watch our parents buy groceries in order to learn how to buy food.

 Cultural relativity is a position, developed by early anthropologists, that states that we must understand individuals in the context of their own culture. In other words, its suspending one's ethnocentric judgments in order to understand and appreciate another person's or a group of people's culture. Cultural relativity helps us to understand other's cultures and their practices without thinking that they're less than ours or that they're backward in any way. Each culture is unique and different in their own ways, and if we practice cultural relativity, we should be able to celebrate that. We should at least try to understand other people's cultures, even if it sometimes seems very strange and vastly different from our own.
An example of cultural relativity is the different types of food that people in different cultures and specifically in this example, what people in different countries eat for breakfast. What is considered a typical breakfast in Turkey is vastly different from what we consider a typical breakfast here in America, but those who live in Turkey may view our breakfast foods of cereals and milk or, egg sandwiches with cheese as very bizarre compared to theirs as well. 
Sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/cultural-relativism-definition-3026122
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/enculturation/
https://study.com/academy/lesson/cultural-relativity-definition-examples.html
https://study.com/academy/lesson/enculturation-definition-examples.html

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