Culture 15

Question 1

DIVERSITY

Answer 1

• The concept of diversity means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing individual differences along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.
• Primary dimensions are those that cannot be changed e.g., age, ethnicity, gender, physical abilities/qualities, race and sexual orientation.
• Secondary dimensions are those that can be changed, e.g., educational background, geographic location, income, marital status, parental status, religious beliefs, and work role/experiences.
• Includes knowing how to relate to those qualities and conditions that are different from our own and outside the groups to which we belong.

Question 2

DIVERSITY INITIATIVE

Answer 2

Sets of policy, definitions, action-plans and steps to map out, support and protect diversity in different dimensions such as age, gender ethnicity etc in any organization, society or area.

Question 3

DIVINATION

Answer 3

Obtaining factual knowledge by magical means which have no apparent empirical connection to the information sought.

Question 4

DIVISION OF LABOR

Answer 4

The division of tasks in a society between women and men, old and young, ability, knowledge, experience.

Question 5

DOMESTIC

Answer 5

Public dichotomy-Contrast between women’s role in the home and men’s role in public life, with a corresponding social devaluation of women’s work and worth.

Question 6

DOMESTICATION

Answer 6

When humans intervene in the breeding patterns of plants or animals.

Question 7

DOOR-IN-THE-FACE EFFECT

Answer 7

A technique for eliciting compliance by making a very large initial request, which the recipient is sure to turn down, followed by a smaller request.

Question 8

DOWRY

Answer 8

• A marital exchange in which the wife’s family provides substantial gifts of money, goods or property to the husband’s family.
• The opposite direction, property given to the bride by the groom, is called dower.

Question 9

ECONOMIZING

Answer 9

The rational allocation of scarce means (or resources) to alternative ends (or uses); often considered the subject matter of economics.

Question 10

ECONOMY

Answer 10

A population’s system of production, distribution, and consumption of resources.

Question 11

EGALITARIAN

Answer 11

A society without formalized differences in the access to power, influence, and wealth.

Question 12

EGALITARIANISM

Answer 12

• Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people.
• One of the seven fundamental value dimensions of Shalom Schwartz measuring how other people are recognized as moral equals.

Question 13

EGO

Answer 13

• Latin for I.
• In kinship charts, the point from which one views an egocentric genealogy.

Question 14

ELABORATION PARADIGM

Answer 14

• A structured approach to the exploration of causal relationships between variables through the examination of contingency tables.
• By introducing third variables to bivariate tabulations, arguments about causal direction and spuriousness are tested.
• The logic of this approach underlies most multivariate statistical analysis.

Question 15

EMBEDDEDNESS

Answer 15

One of the seven fundamental value dimensions of Shalom Schwartz describing people as part of a collective.