Definitions Of Terms

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How would you guys define the following terms for the Armenian Culture?

 

 

Definitions of Terms

 

1. CEREMONY: What a person is to say and do on a particular occasion

 

2. COURTSHIP: Attitudes toward dating, marriage and raising a family

 

3. ESTHETICS: The beautiful things of culture: literature, music, dance, art, architecture, and how they are enjoyed

 

4. ETHICS: How a person learns and practices honesty, fair play, principles, moral thought, etc.

 

5. FAMILY TIES: How a person feels toward his or her family, friends, classmates, roommates, and others

 

6. HEALTH AND MEDICINE: How a person reacts to sickness, death, soundness of body, medicine, etc.

 

7. FOLK MYTHS: Attitudes toward heroes, traditional stories, legendary characters, superstitions, etc.

 

8. GESTURE AND KINESICS: Forms of nonverbal communication or reinforced speech, such as the use of the eys, the hands and the body

 

9. GROOMING AND PRESENCE: The differences in impersonal behavior and appearance such as laughter, smile, voice quality, gait, poise, hair style, cosmetics, dress, etc.

 

10. OWNERSHIP: Attitudes toward ownership of property, individual rights, loyalties, beliefs, etc.

 

11. PRECEDENCE: What are accepted manners toward older persons, peers, and younger persons

 

12. REWARDS AND PRIVILEGES: Attitudes toward motivation, merit, achievement, service, and social position, etc.

 

13. RIGHTS AND DUTIES: Attitudes toward personal obligations, voting, taxes, military service, legal rights, personal demands, etc.

 

14. RELIGION: Attitudes toward the divine and the supernatural and how they affect a person's thoughts and actions

 

15. SEX ROLES: How a person views, understands, and relates to the members of the opposite sex and what deviations are allowed and expected

 

16. SPACE AND PROXEMICS: Attitudes toward self and land; the accepted distances between individuals within a culture

 

17. SUBSISTENCE: Attitudes about providing for oneself, the young, and the old, and who protects whom

 

18. TABOOS: Attitudes and beliefs about doing things against culturally accepted patterns

 

19. CONCEPTS OF TIME: Attitudes about being early, on time, or late

 

20. VALUES: Attitudes toward freedom, education, cleanliness, cruelty, crime, etc.