A set of learned behaviors and ideas humans acquire as members of a society that are patterned, shared, symbolic, and dynamic.
What is culture?
100
A cultural category, rather than a biological one.
What is gender.
100
Symbolic communication, including verbal and non-verbal forms of communication, that plays an active role in shaping culture.
What is language?
100
Schools that contributed to the rapid loss of Native American Languages in the U.S.
What are Native American Boarding Schools?
100
Viewing another culture through the values and beliefs of your own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
Among the Nuer, a patrilineal society in Sudan, the husband's lineage gives the bride's lineage this, in order to compensate for the loss of her labor.
What is a bridewealth?
200
Cultural beliefs about men and women, including their proper roles, behaviors, and characteristics.
What are gender ideologies?
200
The idea that there is a relationship between language and thought.
What is linguistic relativity?
200
A highly stigmatized dialect of English that is often seen as slang or broken English but is linguistically correct.
What is African American English?
200
Understanding another culture through the values and beliefs of that culture.
What is cultural relativism?
300
A brides inheritance, given to her at the time of her marriage.
What is a dowry?
300
The idea that our gender identity is something we create (though language, dress, and actions), even though it feels natural to us.
What is doing gender (or gender as performance)?
300
The Anthropologist who believed language determined thought (the strong view of linguistic relativity).
Who is Whorf?
300
According to linguistic anthropologists, cultures have a right to their language because it is this.
What is a human right?
300
An article of clothing studied by Abu-Lughod.
What is the veil?
400
A form of marriage that allows an individual to have more than one spouse at time.
What is polygamy?
400
Something that is reappropriated by gang girls. That is, they use this tool of ideological femininity in unintended ways to create an alternative kind of gender identity.
What is makeup?
400
Cultural beliefs that link types of speaking with types of people, often creating linguistic inequalities.
What are language ideologies?
400
The idea that non-native English speakers should be allowed to learn in their native language and should learn about their culture in school.
What is the awareness approach?
400
A practice done by some police departments that, according to Harris, is both discriminatory and not effective.
What is racial profiling?
500
When a newly married couple lives on their own, not with any other family members.
What is neolocal?
500
According to Mendoza-Denton, this is when members of minority communities judge themselves based on the aesthetic values of the dominant group.
What is the Oprah Effect?
500
A "myth," a variety of language that everyone believes to exist but cannot actually be defined because all language is culturally, historically, and geographically located.
What is the standard?
500
The idea that all students should be taught about language ideologies and how they create social inequalities.
What is the critical awareness approach?
500
An approach to difference promoted by Abu-Lughod that is neither ethnocentric nor totally culturally relative.
What is the middle ground or human rights approach?