Unit 2

Question 1

What are institutions?

Answer 1

Ways of doing things in society, formalized in organization systems

Question 2

What are signs?

Answer 2

Objects or gestures that express one specific message or meaning

Question 3

What is the visual cultural symbol that Canadians identify themselves with?

Answer 3

Maple Leaf

Question 4

To be human is to:

Answer 4

Live in a culture with specific symbols and rituals that help us to understand ourselves, God and the world

Question 5

In marriage what is exchanged?

Answer 5

Promises and rings

Question 6

What is the church’s official act of worship?

Answer 6

Liturgy

Question 7

What is culture?

Answer 7

The set meanings belief values and rules shared by groups and societies at the source of identity

Question 8

Does culture have the potential to harm us?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Who creates culture?

Answer 9

Humans

Question 10

What would happen if there was no culture?

Answer 10

There would be chaos in society

Question 11

Are their values that are common to all cultures?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Do all rituals have a bodily component?

Answer 12

No

Question 13

Where did the earliest humans come from?

Answer 13

Africa

Question 14

Are humans naturally religious?

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

What does the word symbol mean?

Answer 15

Thrown together

Question 16

Who are symbols meaningful to?

Answer 16

A person, a family, large groups of people

Question 17

Which rite is water most important to?

Answer 17

Baptism

Question 18

During which rite is oil and touch through the laying on of hands the important symbol in symbolic action?

Answer 18

• Confirmation
• Sacrament of the sick
• Ordination

Question 19

What is transcendent mean?

Answer 19

To say God is beyond our physical experience