Culture Shock
This religion absorbs the body of their savior through a process called transubstantiation.
Catholicism
The process of observing a group or practice while also actively participating in it.
Participant observation
Johan Galtung’s Theory of Structural Violence
Examines how institutions, ideologies, and histories can negate people of their basic needs
The study of the sounds in human speech.
Phonetics
The name for ancient Egyptian writing symbols, based on pictures.
Hieroglyphics
A traditional joke in Mexico is to do this after a family member blows out their birthday candles.
Shove their face in the cake
A possible method of gathering data anonymously and on a statistical measurement.
Surveying
Everett Hughes’s Theory of Master Status
Describes the tendency for observers to believe that one label is overwhelmingly dominant over any other aspect of a person.
Syntax
Howard Carter’s discover in 1922 of the tomb of this pharaoh.
Tutankhamun
This game traditional to the UK during children’s birthdays revolves around gradually unwrapping a gift layer by layer.
Pass the parcel
A method of gathering information more specifically with one or few people one-on-one.
Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities
Explores the ways communities can form the people who make up the group, even without an official label
This culture uses the greeting “namaste” as a sign of respect.
Hindu
This ancient city was discovered covered in volcanic ash due to the eruption of a nearby volcano.
Pompeii
Children in Spain do this expecting sweets inside on the night before Día de Reyes.
Leaving their shoes out
Focuses on objects and settings to gather information on the material value of social life.
Material observation
Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Habitus
Examines the ways that people subconsciously abide by routines and habits that they grew up with
This culture prominently uses “tone languages”, where the pitch or tone of a word can change its meaning.
Chinese
This recent discovery in France uncovers lots of new evidence from this ancient species of humans.
Neanderthals
A New Year’s tradition for parents and grandparents in China is to gift these containing money to children during celebrations.
Red envelopes
Observing humans as organisms or populations to gather information on the anatomy and physiology of people.
Biological observation
Antonio Gramsci’s Theory of Hegemony
Describes the systematic process of a fundamental ruling class exercising an intellectual, political, or moral leadership with a specific ideology
The term for a language no longer natively spoken by any community.
Extinct language
This ancient Greek city was submerged underwater until the 20th century, where it was rediscovered near Sicily.
Syracuse