Midterm Definitions and Questions

Question 1

Faith and Vocation

Answer 1

Knowing who we are in Christ leads us to consider what we are to do for Him through a relationship with him and advancing his kingdom.

Question 2

Ethical Action

Answer 2

living as God calls us to live with commitment to the sacredness of human life and to justice.

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

term used to describe the various knowledges and practices that are shared and socially transmitted by humans.

Question 4

Cultural Relativism

Answer 4

Suspending moral and ethical judgments for the purposes of studying another culture group.

Question 5

6 Aspects of Culture

Answer 5

Kinship
Economy
Religion
Politics
Subsistence
Language

Question 6

Values

Answer 6

Beliefs that attach notions such as good/evil, pretty/ugly, or right or wrong to behaviors or objects.

Question 7

Norms

Answer 7

Ordinary ways of doing things in a culture (eating, clothing, architecture)

Question 8

Non-Verbal Communication

Answer 8

Communication without words that includes, gestures, facial expressions, body positions, timing, etc.

Question 9

Public/Private Space

Answer 9

how we use and divide space into public and private sectors, also applies to what we communicate about in various social arenas.

Question 10

451 A.D.

Answer 10

The year that the Coptic Church broke from the Catholic Church

Question 11

Poverty

Answer 11

A socioeconomic condition, but does not constitute a cultural difference in a society.

Question 12

Responsible Citizenship

Answer 12

To love God with all that we have and are, and to love our neighbor as our self by using our resources talents and abilities

Question 13

Redemptive Service

Answer 13

An expression of ethical action that engages in labor for its divinely ordained healing and renewal

Question 14

Culture Shock

Answer 14

the disorientation and confusion that people feel in a different cultural or social environment.

Question 15

Symptoms of Culture Shock

Answer 15

Fear of being robbed
OCD
Refusing to learn the Language
Fear of Locals
Insomnia
Stereotyping the Culture
Homesickness

Question 16

4 Phases of Culture Shock

Answer 16

1. Honeymoon
2. Shock
3. Adjustment
4. Re-Entry

Question 17

Universal Moral Imperatives

Answer 17

The foundations for human behavior, such as do not murder, kill, steal, lie, commit adultery

Question 18

Social Use of Space

Answer 18

Cultures almost instinctively know which spaces are reserved for which people, or which places not to stand or sit, etc.

Question 19

High Context Culture

Answer 19

Not everything needs to be explained, meaning comes from the context of the situation. People are more collectively and group oriented

Question 20

Low Context Culture

Answer 20

Much more needs to be explained in words, implicit understood meanings are absent

Question 21

Event Timing

Answer 21

Often based not on clock time, but when the most important person arrives, or sometimes the most important person comes last.

Question 22

LARA

Answer 22

Listen - and watch what they are doing, think critically to
Ask - questions about those things they’re doing then
Reflect - on your answers by writing, list questions still to
Ask - the questions that came up in your reflecting, then repeat the process

Question 23

Ethnicity/Ethnic Group

Answer 23

Biologically perpetuating communities recognized by themselves and others as a distinct community, having social boundaries

Question 24

Why does Lee require the Global Perspective cross-cultural experience?

Answer 24

To raise students’ awareness of our increasingly interdependent world. To foster a respect for diversity of perspectives, help articulate their own Christian views, and how they relate to another perspective.