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The system of social and moral ideas of a group of people; a commitment to central values.

Ideology

100

The tendency towards increasing global interconnections in culture, economy and social life.

Globalization

100

Pascoe argues that this "..." prevents critical engagement with issues of social justice and equality.

Culture of Kindness/Ideology of Kindness 

100

Mutual exchange or obligation between people 

Reciprocity

100

A type of ritual, a ceremony designed to transition individuals between life stages

Rite of passage

200

This type of co-existence refers to participation in the shared institutions of society between majority and minority, combined with the maintenance of group identity and some degree of cultural distinctiveness.

Integration

200

Patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems.

Institutional Racism

200

What does Robert Murphy believe to be the most difficult psychological syndromes associated with disability, and the most destructive one ..

Loss of Self-Esteem

200

According to Structural Functionalism, all societies aim to achieve this ..

Stability, equilibrium

200

Simplistic descriptions of cultural traits in other groups which are conventionally believed to exist.

Stereotypes 

300

Cultural construction of the individual as a social, corporeal (having a body), and psychological entity.

The "Self"

300

Religious followers of the Hindu Mother Goddess Bahuchara Mata, who is often depicted as transgender. Please name the group of people/community

Hijras

300

Seth Holmes believes that on top of structural violence Triqiue migrants are subject to another form of violence where powerless people internalize beliefs that they have brought their problems on themselves

Symbolic violence

300
Butler's theory of Performativity critiques the following: 

Heteronormativity

300

A group of people who share a common interest, or a common ecology and locality, or a common social system or structure.

Community 

400

An abstract concept derived from all social institutions and social relations existing in a society. Generally seen as the resilient, regulating aspects of society that constrain the actions of its members.

Structure

400

Marriage between one woman and two or more men

Polyandry 

400

This model defines Health as an absence of disease or dysfunction, and illnesses are thought to be the result of specific, identifiable agents.

Biomedicine 

400

Structural functionalist argue that these are primary forms of social organization that predetermines an individual's identity

Family & Kinship

400

The effect an anthropologist’s own subjectivity might have on how they interprets observations and experience. (Be careful: Not reflexivity) 

Positionality 

500

Form of power, the ability to create consent and agreement within a population without direct force or coercion.

Hegemony

500

Framework used to understand how multiple social categorizations—such as race, gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity interact to create overlapping systems of discrimination, privilege, and power within a specific cultural context

Intersectionality

500

State the at least two symbols discussed and presented in “Shapes in the wax” ethnographic film 

Wax & "Babki"

500

A system of symbols that acts to establish understandings of existence in such a way that it is realistic to its followers. It is generally supported and perpetuated by ritual.

Religion 

500

The idea of social positions being encoded in and determined by our race as well as gender. According to these belief, race is a genetic reality that regulates how we behave as individuals.

Biological determinism