Cultural Studies
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- acculturation
- any change in a culture
- assimilation
- blend; combining cultures to create a new one
- bilateral kinship
- relatives determined by both mothers and fathers side of the family
- caste system
- in India, 1989 made illegal; born into caste, remain in caste, marry into same caste
- class system
- can move up and down social ranks
- contraculture
- subculture not living peacefully withing a larger culture (ex. KKK, gangs)
- counterculture
- subculture opposed to the basic values of larger culture but lives peacfully with larger culture (ex. Amish, religious groups)
- cross cousins
- mother's brother's children and father's sister's children
- culture
- learned values, beliefs and traditions
- ethnocentrism
- judging another culture negatively
- extended family
- all relatives
- folkways
- rules of culture; cause no physical harm; minor rules
- geocentric
- the belief that ones geographic location is better than others
- jingoism
- having war-like foreign policy; usually aggressive
- joint family
- live with parents and siblings but also grandparents
- kinship system
- rules for determining relatives
- matriarchal
- females are dominant
- matrilineal descent
- lineage through mothers side
- monogamy
- one spouse
- mores
- rules of culture; big trouble if broken; usually rules backed by laws; major rules
- norms
- the normal dos and donts
- nuclear family
- mom, dad, and children; anyone living in the same house including step parents; not grandparents except if acting as parents
- open class system
- hard work, talent and ability move you up and down
- parallel cousins
- mother's sister's children and father's brother's children
- patriarchal
- males are dominant
- patrilineal descent
- lineage through fathers side
- pluralism
- a culture within a culture but keep there own traditions (ex. China town, little Italy)
- polygamy
- multiple spouses
- primogeniture
- eldest son inherits everything
- racism
- putting ones race above others
- social stratification
- how a country is split
- society
- interaction for survival
- subculture
- division of a larger culture
- unilateral kinship
- relatives determined by only one side of the family
- What have some Muslims accepted as a sixth pillar?
- jihad, struggle in God's service
- What is the fifth of the Five Pillars of Islam?
- hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca
- What is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam?
- Proclaim the belief in one god, Allah. They must accept that God revealed his message to Muhammad. Muhammad is the prophet of god.
- What is the fourth of the Five Pillars of Islam?
- Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan
- What is the importance of Ramadan?
- The ninth month of the Muslim calender when Gabriel spoke to Muhammad; the month of the hejira. Muslims may neither eat nor drink from dawn to sunset. Fourth of the five pillars
- What is the second of the Five Pillars of Islam?
- Prayer, five times a day facing the holy city of Mecca
- What is the third of the Five Pillars of Islam?
- Charity to the poor and aged
- xenophobia
- fear of foreign people