blog schedule.
blogs marked * are required research for seminars
blog 18 |
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blog subject:Describe the social system of your people group. |
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resource questions for blog research:social organization |
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| What trade routes or economic ties exist between this people and neighbouring people or urban centres or neighbouring countries? | |
| What is the relationship between this people and the larger national/regional population? | |
| Beyond the mother-tongue-and Culture, do the other cultural systems come from: near neighbouring peoples; early foreign colonizers/immigrants who helped form the nation; recent foreign colonizers/traders? | |
| What boundaries exist between people in this city or people group? What is their significance for church planting? | |
| What subgroups exist within your people group? | |
| To what degree does the group(s) you have identified see itself as distinct within society? | |
| To what degree does the group restrict interaction with members of other groups? | |
| What are the patterns of social gathering for everyone: men, women, and children? | |
| Are significant parts of these people required to function customarily in terms of two (or more) cultural systems? | |
| What is the most important group(s) a person belongs to? | |
| How does a person relate to the members of their ingroup(s)? | |
| To what degree do group members see themselves as being connected together through influential relationships? | |
| How does a person relate to members of their people group who are not in their ingroup? | |
| How is the world of relationships organized? | |
| What kind of boundaries are there between groups? How rigid or fuzzy are these boundaries? | |
| How do they people identify themselves? With what specific traits would they identify someone who is a _______________ (member of their group)? How do their near neighbours identify them--i.e. with what specific traits? | |
| How important are family relationships? What are the outer boundaries of the extended family group? | |
| What various networks tie members of this people to other people outside the group? What are the strongest of these ties? | |
| How many different ranks of status are recognized? | |
| How does a person mark the transition from one rank of status to the next? | |
| Are there any voluntary associations? Are they graded in status? | |
| What is the status of widows? Widowers? Who looks after them? | |
| What kind of relatives are recognized? From mother’s side? From father’s side? | |
| How many generations are distinguished in kinship? | |
| What is the responsibility of the mother? Father? Grandfather? Grandmother? Paternal uncle? Maternal uncle? Paternal aunt? Maternal aunt? | |
| Are orphans recognised? | |
| Who is responsible for orphans? | |
| How is the family related to other structures in society: to the neighbourhood? to kin? to community organizations? | |
| Do old people have any special organisation? | |
| How important is the child’s peer group in socializing the child? | |
| Which individuals are excluded from marriage because of blood relationship? | |
| Are the relatives on the mother’s side considered blood relatives? | |
| How do they feel about their identity and ethnicity? | |
| Is their ethnic identity maintained more because of a sense of satisfaction in their primordial roots, or because their ethnic identity gives them economic/political advantage? | |
| For what purposes is the family important? Marriage? Festivity? Soul power? Status? | |
| Does a person need a sponsor from above to move up in status? Does he need supernatural sponsorship? | |