Religion /Beliefs
The attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
What is animism?
Fertility rates fall as a result of post-industrial economies, lower infant morality, higher rates of education and other socio-economic changes
What is a demographic, or "silent" revolution?
explains human behavior and social practices as the results of biology
What is bio-determinism?
Shows identities as every day practices
What is Shankar, Shalini “Speaking like a Model Minority: "FOB" Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings” ?
•assumes identity is unchanging, given, primordial
•views identity as independent of context, and outside of history,
What is essentialism?
Something that has real consequences (even if not true) because people share the belief that it is true accordingly. i.e. race.
What are social facts?
Marrying outside any given social group
What is exogamy?
•Who sets research priorities?
•Who gets funding?
•What are the sources of funding?
•Who controls or owns the results?
•How are results interpreted, represented and disseminated?
•Who benefits from the results?
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What are the politics of science?
Individual subjectivity and behavior are shaped by cultural models and social relations undertaken by kin, friends, acquaintances and bridal workers, who, in this text, shape brides and grooms
What is Adrian, Bonnie “The Camera’s Positioning: …Taipei’s Bridal Industry”?
Labels that define people,
culturally meaningful social distinctions
What are social categories?
When multiple cultural discourses, ideas, and aesthetics get blended together in any aspect of life. such as buddhism, christianity, and islam in many countries.
What is syncretism?
teaching/passing down knowledge and customs to future generations
What is social reproduction?
Technology as the cause of and/or the solution to societal problems
What is techno-determinism?
ceremonies that structure the life-stages of people
What are rites of passage?
People are shaped by multiple identities, e.g. white, working class, man; elderly, black, woman
What is intersectionality?
Belief systems that sets out an ideal about what are proper relations among people, actions, objects, and nature
What is symbolic order?
Believed that overpopulation would lead to increased competition over limited resources and cause catastrophe.
Who is Thomas Robert Malthus?
The process of discovery and commercialization of new products based on biological resources
What is Bioprospecting?
“My aim is not simply to debunk or confirm what you’ve previously been told or believed to be true. Rather my hope is that you will rethink those ideas, and reconsider their implications: Where do they come from? Who told you about them, and why? How can you know if they are true or false? And what difference does it make?”
What is Gaudio, Rudolf “Who are ‘Yan Daudu?”?
the production of new cultural forms goes hand in hand with globalization
What is revitalization, hybridization, syncretism?
Stated that religious beliefs were a way of organizing society, religious practices mirrored dominant forms of social organization. i.e. "god is male" etc.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
How members of a culture trace their genealogies
What are descent rules?
Authority given to or claimed by people seen as having specialized knowledge, when in reality their knowledge is not objective, and may not be the only way of understanding something.
What is the "rule of experts"?
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.’
Susan Sontag
Argues that there are multiple different ways of practicing religion and belief , many which do not conform to "official" codes of conduct or institutions - all of them valid in their own right.
What is Mundo Milagroso?