ANT101 Ashford University Week 5 Gender in Culture Research Paper In the Final Research Paper, you will Describe an aspect of your own culture from an eti

ANT101 Ashford University Week 5 Gender in Culture Research Paper In the Final Research Paper, you will

Describe an aspect of your own culture from an etic (outsider’s) perspective in Part I of the paper.
Describe an aspect of another culture from an emic (insider’s) perspective in Part II of the paper.
Apply cultural relativism in order to examine misconceptions about culture that may occur due to ethnocentrism.
Keep the distinction between cultural relativism and moral relativism in mind as you write your final paper.
Even if you do not personally agree with a cultural practice, explain how the practice makes sense in its cultural context.
Avoid opinionated or judgmental language in your paper.
Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of how it developed as part of a social system within both your culture and another culture.
Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of its purpose as part of a social system both within your own culture and another culture.
use academic voice

Attached is a worksheet with sources that must be used Week Three Assignment Worksheet
Please review this assignment tutorial for help filling out this 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:
Nicolini, R., & Roig, J. L. (2017). Gender and culture: do they matter for norms? Applied
Economics Letters, 24(19), 1423–1427. https://doi-org.proxylibrary.ashford.edu/10.1080/13504851.2017.1343436
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).
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.
This article was based on a natural experiment where they researched how gender and
cultural backgrounds influence norms. Research found that both gender and cultural
backgrounds contributed to how people were affected by peer pressure against the act of
cheating on an assigned group task. Ultimately coming to the conclusion that both factors
contribute to being a hard worker and that creates the norm for or of a group.
Summary of your source for Part II (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least
300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.
This article was based on an experiment taken in Western Fiji on adolescent teens from a
rural community. The study was conducted to see the impact of television introduction
had on the Fijian teens regarding the self and body image. Throughout the study the
realized that television was both constructive and destructive to the adolescents. Data
showed that the adolescents became self-cautious in terms of their body image and
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lowered self-esteem resulting in eating disorders. This then created a social hierarchy that
was never there before.
5) Write a working thesis statement based on your sources. See this example.
Working Thesis Statement:
Gender and cultural backgrounds influence norms. Cultural changes do not have good
impacts when rapidly implemented.
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