Concept map of History Inside and Out and The west and The Rest

Concept map of History inside and out and The West and Rest，一起来看。

Reading Task

• History inside and out
  • Di{fusionism as a Belief System
    • the reason of why the Diffusionism developed as the belief system is : colonialism.
  • The Ethnography of Beliefs
    • belief may not true or cmpleletly true
    • reasonableness
    • Values interact with beliefs in a belief-value matrix.
  • Modern Dif[usionism
    • Europeans still believe that the fundamental cultural nature between Inside and Outside are different
  • Classical Dif{usionism
    • an immensely profitable business
    • Europeans hace superiority in all areas, non-European inferiority
  • Diffusionism
    • civilizations in non -Europe were seen as they were not smart enough to think up these things on their own
    • Diffusionism is grounded in two axioms
      • (1) Most human societies are not creative.
      • (2)Europe is center of culture change
    • seven fundamental arguments
      • 1. Europe is "historicaL"
      • 2. Non-Europe is not to be expected
      • 3. European progress is some kinds of influences in "European mind,"
      • 4. The reason for non-Europe's nonprogress
      • 5. how the non-Europe area develop
      • 6.Europeans colonial them is morally justified
      • 7. Europe is advanced and non-Europe is backward
  • EUROCENTRIC DIFFUSIONISM
    • a label for all the beliefs
    • postulate past or present superiority of Europeans over non-Europeans .
    • Eurocentrism is the colonizer's model of the world
  • different describtion of non-Europeans
  • What did people think between Europe and Non- Europe
    • an Inside and an Outside. Inside leads, Outside lags. Inside innovates, Outside imitates.
  • When did expansion begin
    • Non-Europe have not received significant notice before 1492
  • Where is the West
    • Europe
• West and Rest
  • Where is the West
    • Europe
  • When did expansion begin
    • end of“the Middle Ages” and the beginning of the“modern age.”
  • The Barriers in the Mind
    • stereotype of non-Europe
  • What did people think between Europe and Non- Europe
    • “the West” = developed = good = desirable, or the “non-West” = underdeveloped = bad = undesirable
  • Colonialism and unfair trade
    • change giftsat first, unequal exchanges later.
  • Discourse
    • representing “the West,” “the Rest,” and the relations between them
    • 1. what can prodece a discourse
      • 2. Discourses are not closed systems.
        • 3. The statements within a discursive formation need not all be the same.
    • Discourse and Ideology
      • what is“discourse”
    • Can a Discourse Be “Innocent”?
      • The Europeans controled "The others", This influenced their thinking
    • Other reasons influence the West
      • discourse in different areas will cause Stereotypes
  • From “the West and the Rest” to Modern Sociology
    • influence of Colonization and imperialism
    • crucial “externalist” features