how does the UN define child marriage
anyone under the age of 18
list 3 problems of child marriage
- ends education
- ends childhood
- isolation of girls away from their families
- death from childbirth
- powerless to refuse sex
how to end child marriage
- eradicate poverty and hunger
- universal primary education
- promote gender equality
- reduce child mortality
- improve maternal health
- combat HIV, malaria, etc
6 US fixes to the problems in the sub saharan african article
- economical participation
- political participation
- access to health care
- women in climate change
- combating violence
- combating child marriage
in Subsaharan Africa maternal deaths make up _____% of the world’s total
40
in Subsaharan Africa women do ___% of the farmwork
70
what is culture?
beliefs, norms, values, traditions, lifestyle,etc
- can be practiced by a group of people
- can be self defined or others can defined
- includes material and nonmaterial things
what is folk culture
static no change
what is popular culture
- diverse and heterogeneous
- urban trends
- media shared
- global
- dynamic
- subject to time space compression
define local culture
- homogeneous
- rural (but not always)
what are the 4 things local culture needs to survive?
- language
- religion
- land
- livlihood
what are the two goals of local culture?
- keep others out(easier in rural areas)
- keep cultural traits from diffusion
retteritorialization
single culture trait changed for your culture
glocalization
process big general
cultural appropriation
take a trait out of a culture and it loses its authenticity
commoditication
make money off of appropriation
nelocalism
recreate a local culture
-lacks authenticity and tries to make a profit
appropriation is normally a _______________________
stereotype
popular culture is s most often expanded by ________ diffusion
hierarchal
pop culture creates ______?
placelessness
what are three factors of placelessness?
- common architectural forms
- borrow an idealized landscape (ex.- Vegas)
- transnational businesses(McDonalds)
what is identity?
how we or others define us
what is ascribed identity
given, assigned, born with
what is achieved identity
- acquire
- create
- earn
explain what identifying against is
things you say you are not
what are examples of achieved identity
- personality
- career
- scholar
- athlete
- musician
what are possible ascribed identities
- gender
- sex
- race
- sexuality
what are two unchanging ascribed identities?
- ethnicity
- nationality
identity changes at scale
- local
- state
- regional
- national
- international
define jumping scale
when your identity is so special that it jumps to the next level on the identity scale
redlining
process where banks drew lines on a map and refused to give out loans in that area
blockbusting
if a minority moved in a neighborhood banks would create a panic and get everyone to move away
informal economy
economic activities for which the person is not paid
examples of an informal economy
- child care
- cooking
- laundry
why are women seen as an economic burden?
- raise her until she’s 15 just to marry her off, then she takes care of her in laws and not her own parents(no social security)
- dowry
true or false: a woman in south Africa has a greater chance of being raped than she does learning how to read
true
70% of women in Niger report being beaten or raped by their husband father or brother
true
75% of women report having been beaten or raped by a family member
true
about 200,000 unsafe abortions take place per year in southern africa and almost 80,000 die from the unsafe procedures
true
why do honor killings occur in places like palestine?
because the women bring shame on their families