Ethnocentrism

Issues and Debates:

Does psychology have ethnocentric biases? 

This film begins by explaining the key concept of social construction and then illustrates three sources of potential ethnocentrism:

• researcher
• conceptual and
• reporting bias.

 

It also stresses the importance of evaluation. 

• Is there clear evidence of ethnocentrism?
• Is ethnocentrism becoming less of an issue in a globalising world?
• Does ethnocentrism apply in the same way to all branches of psychology?