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Definition of Ethnocentric
1. Adjective. Centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own.
Definition of Ethnocentric
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to ethnocentrism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethnocentric
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethnocentric
Literary usage of Ethnocentric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Direction of Human Evolution by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"B. ethnocentric RATHER THAN EGOCENTRIC A religion that looks merely to personal
rewards or punishments in the present or future is not one of the highest ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Geocentric astronomy and ethnocentric geography have been relegated long ...
but from the bondage of ethnocentric ethics, manifesting itself in national ..."
3. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"Just as some individuals develop ethnocentric attitudes that have behavioral
correlates toward members of other ethnic groups (Williams, 1964:17-29), ..."
4. Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology by Edward Payson Evans (1898)
"Theocentric attraction superior to ethnocentric attraction. ... ethnocentric
attraction gives way to what might be called theocentric attraction, ..."
5. Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1900)
"... the offspring of a demo- centric system, which sprang from an earlier ethnocentric
system born of the primeval egocentric cosmos of inchoate thinking. ..."
6. Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs by William Graham Sumner (1906)
"... to itself the loyalty which had been given to men (lords), and it became the
object of that group vanity and antagonism which had been ethnocentric. ..."
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