Culture 42

Question 1

SEMIPERIPHERY

Answer 1

Structural position in the world system intermediate between core and periphery.

Question 2

SERIAL MONOGAMY

Answer 2

A pattern of divorce and monogamous remarriage.

Question 3

SEX ROLE DIVISION OF LABOR

Answer 3

The division of subsistence tasks between women and men.

Question 4

SEXISM

Answer 4

Discrimination or prejudice against some people because of their gender.

Question 5

SEXUAL DIMORPHISM

Answer 5

Marked differences in male and female biology, besides the contrasts in breasts and genitals, and temperament.

Question 6

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Answer 6

A person’s habitual sexual attraction to, and activities with: persons of the opposite sex, heterosexuality; the same sex, homosexuality; or both sexes, bisexuality.

Question 7

SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION

Answer 7

• Is discrimination against individuals, couples or groups based on sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation.
• Usually, this means the discrimination of a person who has a same-sex sexual orientation, whether or not they identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
• Acceptability of sexual orientation varies greatly from society to society.
• The Republic of South Africa is the first nation on earth to integrate freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation into its constitution.

Question 8

SHAMAN

Answer 8

• A religious practitioner who mediates between ordinary people and supernatural beings and forces.
• Somone who travels between worlds in a state of trance.
• Once in the spirit world, the shaman would commune with the spirits for assistance in healing, hunting or weather management.

Question 9

SHANTYTOWN

Answer 9

• Neighbourhoods where poor migrants to cities live.
• Also called slum, favela, township.

Question 10

SHARED STRESS EFFECT

Answer 10

People who are together in a stressful environment tend to feel mutual attraction.

Question 11

SIMULATION

Answer 11

A research method that tries to imitate crucial aspects some real-world situation in order to understand the underlying mechanism of that situation.

Question 12

SISTER EXCHANGE

Answer 12

A shorthand label for a marriage system in which men of different descent groups exchange women who are sometimes their own sisters or daughters and sometimes parallel cousins or the daughters of parallel cousins.

Question 13

SLASH AND BURN

Answer 13

• Cultivation with recurrent clearing and burning of vegetation and planting in the burnt fields.
• Fallow periods for each plot last longer than periods of cultivation.
• It is sometimes referred to as swidden (or shifting) cultivation.

Question 14

SLAVERY

Answer 14

Is the most extreme, coercive, abusive, and inhumane form of legalized inequality where people are treated as things or someone’s property.

Question 15

SOCIAL CLASS

Answer 15

People having the same rank in a system that differentiates people from high to low.