Edward B. Tylor and other eighteenth-century thinkers asserted that "primitives" around the world would eventually evolve through the stages of barbarism to become civilized like Europeans,
but that these "primitives" would need some help from the civilized world to reach this ultimate, ideal stage. This perception that Western society is the center of the civilized world and that non-Western societies are inherently inferior is called __________.
A. logical negativism
B. logical positivism
C. ethnocentrism
D. devolution
Answer: C
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a. True b. False
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.