Sociological Phenonmena

Question 1

What is cultural imperialism?

Answer 1

The term cultural imperialism refers most broadly to the exercise of domination in cultural relationships in which the values, practices, and meanings of a powerful foreign culture are imposed upon one or more native cultures.

Question 2

Hybridization

Answer 2

The term refers to the production of novel cultural forms and practices through the merging of previously separate antecedents.

Question 3

Creolization

Answer 3

Creolization is traditionally used to refer to the Caribbean, although it is not exclusive to the Caribbean and some scholars use the term to represent other diasporas. Furthermore, creolization occurs when participants select cultural elements that may become part of or inherited culture.

Question 4

Transculturalation

Answer 4

A process of cultural transformation marked by the influx of new culture elements and the loss or alteration of existing ones

Question 5

Interculturation

Answer 5

Interculturation celebrates the interaction between individuals of different ethnicities, religions and cultural practices in the community and or society.

Question 6

Syncretism

Answer 6

1. The amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.
2. The merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language.

Question 7

Cultural Pluralism

Answer 7

1. A condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.
2. A doctrine that a society benefits from such a condition.

Question 8

Cultural Diversity

Answer 8

The existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Question 9

Cultural Erasure

Answer 9

Cultural erasure is a practice in which a dominant culture, for example a colonizing nation, attempts to negate, suppress, remove and, in effect, erase the culture of a subordinate culture. The idea of “civilizing” nonwhite people can be seen as cultural erasure.

Question 10

Enculturation

Answer 10

Enculturation is the process whereby an established culture influences and teaches an individual, group, or organization to the extent that the target adopts the particular culture’s values, norms.

Question 11

Assimilation

Answer 11

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society’s majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

Question 12

Socialization

Answer 12

Socialization generally refers to the process of social influence through which a person acquires the culture or subculture of their group, and in the course of acquiring these cultural elements the individual’s self and personality are shaped.

Question 13

Social Stratification /
Social Mobility

Answer 13

Social stratification refers to a ranking of people or groups of people within a society.

Social mobility refers to the ability of individuals to change positions within a social stratification system. When people improve or diminish their economic status in a way that affects social class, they experience social mobility.

Question 14

Class Consciousness

Answer 14

Awareness of one’s place in a system of social class, especially (in Marxist terms) as it relates to the class struggle.

Question 15

Classism

Answer 15

Prejudice against people belonging to a particular social class.

Question 16

Colour Consciousness.

Answer 16

A theory stating that equality under the law is insufficient to address racial inequalities in society. It rejects the concept of fundamental racial differences, but holds that physical differences such as skin color can and do negatively impact some people’s life opportunities.

Question 17

Socio-Economic and
Political Models being
Hybridized.

Question 18

Social Institutions

Answer 18

Social institutions are mechanisms or patterns of social order focused on meeting social needs, such as government, economy, education, family, healthcare, and religion.

Question 19

Social Organizations

Answer 19

A pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups.
• Aspects of social organization are presented in all social situations where a few or more people are thrown into a set of interrelated activities arising from the operation of social norms.

Question 20

Material Culture

Answer 20

Material culture refers to the physical aspects of a society, the objects made or modified by a human. These objects surround a people and its activities and are defined by their properties, be they chemical, physical, or biological.

Question 21

Non-Material / Symbolic
Culture

Answer 21

Non-Material or Symbolic culture is the ideas associated with a cultural group, including ways of thinking (beliefs, values, and assumptions) and ways of behaving (norms, interactions, and communication). Non-material culture involves ideas and ways of behaving.

Question 22

Race Politics

Answer 22

Racial politics or race politics is the use of race, as a human categorization or hierarchical identifier, in political discourse, campaigns, or within the societal and cultural climate created by such practice.