Describe three typical life-cycle ceremonies and give an example of each from a specific indigenous religion. Indigenous religions, which are very often called “native,” “local,” “ethnic,” or “traditional” belong to the world’s sixth largest religious group, if considered as a section. They are highly correlated to the ancient interpretation of humankind’s great traditions, and their visions about the world around them. Such religions are largely practiced among “the tribal people,” where its roots had been discovered in Africa, and later on continued in: India, Australia (Aborigines), New Zealand (Maoris), Central/Southeast Asia, and Latin America (Santa Clara University/Indigenous Religion). As well as many other religions/likewise, traditional religions belong to those, whom practicing and celebrating life-cycle rituals play an essential role throughout the one’s life.
There is a surprising estimated 30 million people who speak the Igbo language. That represents roughly close to 20 percent of the total Nigeria population. The Igbo tribe’s social and cultural norms all branch out into religion, ceremonies, food, music, art, clothing, law, sports, and language to associate with the life of all its habitants. Social Organization “Details of traditional Igbo government and social structure varied from place to place
Assess the sociological explanations of the role of culture in contemporary society Culture is a community within a society that teaches us norms and values through various institutions. Recently, culture has become increasingly more influential and diverse with different types of culture coming into play. Not only thus, culture creates our identity, gives us personality, maintains social order and most importantly; culture provides knowledge and within culture lies a high level of knowledge for man to adapt to. Functionalists believe that society is structured and that the individual is the product of societies various institutions, for example family, education and religion. Emile Durkheim, a leading Functionalist, believed that different institutions in different cultures teach us norms and values that make up our identity and personality.
It will not matter if the wife is earning much money from work compare to the husband but men should always be in charge of their family. This is important to me because I will feel respected in my family. Values and attitude towards education- In my culture; being educated is what’s most important. Due to education my status rise in the society and be respected for that because the people in the community will start looking upon many things that they can’t do. 3.
Alex Belluccia 5/1/11 Mr. Z S.S. / 7 Before the arrival of Europeans in Africa, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Africans had already developed advanced civilizations. Beginning with the kingdom of Axum, African kingdoms and empires have arose and declined throughout history. Kingdoms throughout Africa have made a lot of money trough trade. This allowed for some centers of advanced civilizations to develop, such as Axum, Ghana, and Mali, allowing these empires to accomplish many sophisticated accomplishments. Axum, located along the eastern coast of Africa, developed into an advanced society, and achieved many sophisticated achievements.
Although their culture and ways were very different than the ways of the white man, their civilization lasted centuries, that is until things fell apart. There is history of the Igbo people from the 9th century, and up until the mid to late 17th century, these people lived in peace and prosperity (Dictionary). The Igbo’s had a very organized way of life. Some of their villages consisted of a few hundred people to a few thousand (Africa). In every village there were meeting places where the entire village held court like trials (Achebe).
(Aurelius, n.d.) Book Two in The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is about how to live your life. It is from the wisdom that his grandfather, Verus, taught him as he was growing up. “Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the
They believe they have the right to decide what they believe in, what their values are and how they are going to live their lives. Often, young adults must find or create their own communities. There are great benefits to the individualistic culture. It offers an abundance of personal freedom and equal opportunity. But there are a lot of losses that happen in this kind of culture.
The six sociological concepts I am going to review for my life is are functionalism, race and ethnicity, discrimination, religion, socialization, and crime. In my life I am a functionalist. Functionalist see society for what they can do to improve society. I am a very caring person and I try to always make my actions to help something evolve into something positive. I like the atmosphere to be positive, creating new circumstances to make things better.
What Child Rights Mean to Me For some time now, I have been thinking of what it means to have rights as a child how these rights can have an impact on my attitudes and behaviours. One thing I have definitely learned is that it does not give me the right to do what I like nor behave as I like thinking that no one can stop me. Growing up, I never really encounter any problem with my parents and their style of parenting. I have such loving parents whom I remember always played a very important role in my upbringing and encouraged my success as a child. If it weren’t for these supporting and caring individuals in my life, I’m not sure what type of person I would be today.