What is culture? How does it impact various established cultural practices? Please choose one culture and hone in on one cultural practice. Consult four [4] critical resources, or more, from the FDU Library (not simply Wikipedia or Google) to consider ONE SPECIFIC element of a chosen culture in a deeper context. Do not present a broad general essay on the topic. Specific information must be included in the research thesis-driven paper that explicitly addresses some of the topics from the following list:
Religious and spiritual practices
Medical treatment practices
Forms of artistic expression
Dietary Selections, planning, and culinary practices
Nature—Conceptions and Relations to Nature and Natural Resource Management
Housing – Planning/Living Organization and Construction
Childcare practices
Conflict resolution
1. Where does the information for this cultural practice come from? Direct observation,
interviews, research databases with restricted access, and so on?
2. How has this cultural practice, event, or object changed over time, and what
circumstances or pressures have caused this change?
3. How does this cultural focal point relate to other unfamiliar or seemingly very different
parts of the same culture and different cultures?
4. How would you critique or limit the scope of the source of your information about this
cultural practice? [For instance, how do interviews limit the scope of your commentary?
How does a scholarly academic resource face constraints? What does each kind of source
overlook or fail to consider?]
CURRENT THESIS (MAY ALTER: Specify which culture in the thesis. I was thinking about the Islamic culture. If you don’t know much about the Islamic culture it’s fine. Any culture works)- The advancement of modernization has led to significant alterations in traditional cultural practices, impacting societies worldwide
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