Quiz 3

Question 1

Supernatural belief

Answer 1

Belief that transcends the observable, natural world

Question 2

Functions of belief systems

Answer 2

1. Social cohesion and support
2. Educational tool (leaves room for choice)
3. Explanation (live life)
4. Revitalization
5. Ecology

Question 3

Ritual

Answer 3

Behavior that is formalized, regularly repeated, and has symbolic content

Question 4

Sex

Answer 4

Biological construct, biological or genetic differences between male and female assigned at birth based on visual differences in external genitalia

Question 5

Gender

Answer 5

Cultural construct of masculine and feminine roles, and the qualities assigned to those roles; meaning of being male or female

Question 6

Sexuality

Answer 6

Cultural construct; refers to exotic desires, sexual practices, and sexual orientation and patterned gender ideology

Question 7

Meanings of the veil

Answer 7

• protect herself and respectability
• religious beliefs
• show off inner self and character
• protesting westernization and economic development
• show pride and nationality/indigenous
• variation on style
• desire for marriage with shared values
• freedom in public places from unwanted male attention
• portable seclusion; ethnicity and social class standing
• choices grant agency

Question 8

Outsider meaning of the veil

Answer 8

• victim and no choice
• white men saving brown women from brown men
• male oppression
• traditional culture is source of oppression
• uniform and homogenous religion
• taking one extreme aspect of a culture and thinking that what the entire culture is doing is that and wrong
• terrorism and symbolizes a threat

Question 9

Expressive forms

Answer 9

1. Expressive outlet
2. Identity and solidarity for groups
3. Education
4. Connects to supernatural
   - art allows you to express things you wouldn’t normally be able to
   - people use art every day to express themselves that can’t be expressed through language