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A 4 page research paper that addresses 3 topics: functionalism of three cultural universals; the sub-culture of hip-hop; and the pervasiveness and need for mainstream American ideology. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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roughly 70 cultural features as being universal to all human societies (Cultural Universals, 2008). In other words, cultural universals refer to practices that derive from the fact that all human
beings have the same basic needs. All people are born, die, and incur illnesses and injuries during their lifetimes. All societies depend on their survival by creating cultural practices that
ensure the welfare of their children. Therefore, funeral practices, medical practices and marriage customs are common features of all societies, and these cultural practices all perform vital functions for their
particular society. All cultures devise funerary practices. These practices are functional to their societies in that they are pragmatic, as a dead body soon becomes a public health hazard. But
they also have an emotional component that is functional, in that funeral practices aid the bereaved, giving them a sense of closure and helping them, particularly through the religious significance
of funerary customs, to begin to transition through the process of grieving. Another cultural universal is medicine, as illness and injury are likewise universal. The function of medicine is
to cope with these events. While modern medicine is quite successful at this function, folk medicine serves the same purposes. Murdock felt that another cultural universal was marriage
and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage, according to Murdock, was to regulate sexual
relations in a way that would provide for the raising of children. As this suggests, he felt that its function was not simply sexual but also economic in that it
provides an institution that is geared toward providing the resources necessary for raising children. A subculture; its norms, values, argot and sanctions The worldwide subculture of hip-hop has its
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