Chapter Eight: Aspects of Culture Vocabulary

1. Chapter Eight:Aspects of Culture Vocabulary

2. Culture • Culture refers to a people’s way of life from how they meet their needs, their language, religion, beliefs, customs, institutions, and technology.

3. Customs • Things people usually do, such as how they dress, the foods they eat, and how they celebrate holidays and the great turning points in life – birth, coming of age, marriage, parenthood, and death.

4. Animism • A polytheistic form of religion in which it is believed things in nature have their own spirit.

5. Hinduism • A polytheistic form of religion which teaches that the principles of life can be discovered through meditation.

6. Buddhism • A polytheistic form of religion which teaches to end suffering, a person must come to accept the world as it is and to block out selfish desires.

7. Judaism • A monotheistic form of religion who believe in one God and follow the Ten Commandments.

8. Christianity • A monotheistic form of religion which believes Jesus died to redeem mankind.

9. Islam • A monotheistic form of religion which believe in Muhammad as Allah’s last and greatest prophet and the Five Pillars of Faith.

10. Sikhism • A monotheistic form of religion which believe in both Hindu and Muslim beliefs.

11. Gender Roles • Roles specifically assigned to men and women by society.

12. Urban • City Setting

13. Rural • Countryside Setting

14. Multicultural • Containing a mix of peoples and cultures.

15. Social Class • A group within a society’s social structure containing people of similar wealth and power.

16. Social Mobility • Refers to how easy it is to change one’s social class.