| A | B |
|---|
| culture | traditions/ways of life |
| customs | things people usually do--food, dress, holidays etc. |
| animism | the belief that things in nature have their own spirit |
| Hinduism | the ancient religion of India |
| Buddhism | religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal around 500 BC |
| Judaism | the oldest of the 3 monotheistic religions |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| Christianity | religion based on the teachings of Jesus |
| Islam | means submission in Arabic--religion founded by Mohammed |
| Sikhism | combines beliefs of Islam and Hinduism |
| Gender roles | social behavior expected of people based on their sex |
| Urban | having to do with cities |
| Rural | having to do with the countryside |
| Multicultural | containing a mix of people and cultures |
| religion | a set of beliefs about the supernatural and the meaning of life |
| clan | a group of families |
| kami | Japanese nature spirit |
| Shintoism | most traditional religion of Japan |
| cultural perceptions | how people perceive those from other cultures |
| Moses | presented the Jewish people with 10 commandments |
| Messiah | Hebrew word for "savior" |
| Apostles | Jesus's closest followers |
| Torah | The first five books of the Jewish scriptures |
| polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| Allah | the Arabic word for God |
| meditation | a form of deep contemplation |
| castes | hereditary social classes |
| minority | a non-dominant group |
| homogeneous societies | have only one ethnic group |
| genocide | wiping out an entire race, "ethnic cleansing" |
| ethnic group | people with a common ancestry and culture |
| discrimination and exclusion | when minorities are denied civil and political rights |
| social structure | how society is organized into different groups and classes |
| karma | law of cause and effect leading to reincarnation |
| nirvana | escape from the cycle of reincarnation |
| the Qu'ran | the sacred scripture of Islam |
| reincarnation | rebirth |
| institutions | organizations which make social roles clear and take care of social needs |
| subsistence agriculture | farming to meet only immediate needs |
| upper class | owns most of the wealth in a society |
| middle class | managers, professionals, business owners |
| working class | manual workers |
| peasants | owners of small farms |
| lower class | uneducated, unskilled persons who take the least desirable jobs |
| social mobility | ability to move from one social class to another |
