Culture 29

Question 1

MONOGAMY

Answer 1

Marriage in which an individual has one spouse.

Question 2

MONOTHEISM

Answer 2

• Worship of an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent supreme being.
• Judaism and Islam are examples.

Question 3

MORE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (MDCS)

Answer 3

• Countries with significant competitive advantages in today’s globalizing economy.
• They have well-developed, increasingly knowledge-based and strongly interconnected manufacturing and service sectors that provide a significant proportion of employment and contribute to significant national and individual wealth.
• In these countries indices such as literacy levels, incomes and quality of life are high and these countries exercise considerable political influence at the global scale.
• Examples are the UK, the US, Germany and France.

Question 4

MORPHEME

Answer 4

The smallest unit of sound that carries a distinct meaning.

Question 5

MORPHOLOGY

Answer 5

• The study of form.
• It is used in linguistics (the study of morphemes and word construction).

Question 6

MUCROLOGY

Answer 6

The art of etching or painting with a pointed tip of a feathery leaf, etc.

Question 7

MULATO

Answer 7

• A term used for people of partly African descent.
• Originates from Spanish.

Question 8

MULITCULTURALISM

Answer 8

• Stressing the importance of different cultures, races, and ethnicities.
• A belief or policy that endorses the principle of cultural diversity of different cultural and ethnic groups so that they retain distinctive cultural identities.
• The United States is understood as a “mosaic” of various and diverse cultures, as opposed to the single monolithic culture that results from the “melting pot” or assimilation model. Pluralism tends to focus on differences within the whole, while multiculturalism emphasizes the individual groups that make up the whole.
• The term multiculturalism is also used to refer to strategies and measures intended to promote diversity.
• According to Wikipedia, the word was first used in 1957 to describe Switzerland, but came into common currency in Canada in the late 1960s.

Question 9

MULTIRACIAL/Mixed-race

Answer 9

• Describe people whose parents are not the same race.
• Is more commonly used to describe a society or group of people from more than one racial or ethnic group.
• Mulato (for people of partly African descent) and mestizo (people of partly Native American descent) in Spanish and métis in Candian French (for people of mixed white and original inhabitants of Canada descent) are also used in English.

Question 10

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Answer 10

Analysis of the relationships between three or more variables (as opposed to bivariate analysis, which involves two variables, or univariate analysis which involves one).

Question 11

MYTH

Answer 11

Story told in one’s culture to explain things like the creation of the world, and the behaviour of its inhabitants.

Question 12

MYTHOLOGY

Answer 12

• A body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes.
• Refers to the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths symbolically.
• If interpreted literally rather than symbolically mythology becomes psychology misread as biography, history and cosmology. The American Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was one of the most famous mythologists.

Question 13

NATION

Answer 13

• Earlier a synonym for “ethnic group,” designating a single culture sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship.
• Now usually a synonym for state or nation-state.

Question 14

NATIONAL CHARACTER

Answer 14

• Studies based on the assumption that collectively members of a society have a distinctive set of psychological qualities.
• Has been replaced by the concept of core values.

Question 15

NATIONAL CULTURE

Answer 15

Cultural experiences, beliefs, learned behavior patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation.