blog schedule.
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blog 5 |
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blog subject:Outline the social demography of your area. |
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resource questions for blog research:social demography |
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| What is the status of Scripture translation into this language? | |
| What is the relationship between this language and the national language? | |
| What other ethnolinguistic groups live in the vicinity of this people? | |
| What is the relationship between this people and the larger national/regional population? | |
| What is the status of literacy in this language and in the national language? | |
| In what geographic region are they dispersed? | |
| What bilingual dictionaries are available for this language? | |
| Where do diaspora communities exist from which to learn this language? | |
| What is the status of education among this people? | |
| What is the literacy rate? | |
| To what linguistic family does this language belong, and what are some related languages? | |
| With what other people groups does this people share cultural affinities? | |
| What is the history of this people, including ethnolinguistic origins and recent history? | |
| What percent are rich, comfortable, subsistence level, or destitute? Do these economic class lines coincide with other classifications (i.e., kin, caste, etc.) or do they cut across these divisions, tying people together? | |
| What religious trends are underway among this people? | |
| What is the percentage of this people adhering to each of the main religions? | |
| In the main, what social class in the national system do these people occupy? What are the functions or potential functions of this class in the total system? | |
| What trade routes or economic ties exist between this people and neighbouring people or urban centres or neighbouring countries? | |
| What is the current political status of this people? | |
| What natural contacts exist between this people and other ethnolinguistic groups living outside this region? | |
| What is the total population of this people? | |
| How does this people’s economic situation compare with that of the rest of the nation, and with the rest of the world? | |
| What is the economic status of this people? | |
| What problems are there regarding education? | |
| Beyond basic necessities, what do they prefer to spend their money on? (clothes, parties, insurance policies, investments, labour-saving gadgets. | |
| Are significant parts of these people required to function customarily in terms of two (or more) cultural systems? | |
| 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 extent are the people bilingual? | |
| Is this a literate or an oral language only? | |
| Where do old people live? | |
| Where are they traveling? | |
| What do these people consider to be the significant events of the last 30 years? of the last 500 years? How have they reacted to these events? | |
| Do the people consider themselves poor, or not? | |