2 Flashcards
Deals with fossilized remains, primate beginning and evolution.
Physical Anthropology
Rely more on smell for information
Have mobile ears, whiskers, longer snouts
Prosimians
Rounded brain cases
Reduce non-mobile outer ears
Anthropoids
Deals with the study of primaters
Primatology
A theory that tells early human ancestors primarily lived on trees
Arboreality
Gradual increase of the size of brain
Encephalization
General used by scientists to categorize the group of early humans and other humanlike creatures
Hominid
Four categories of hominid
Sahelanthropus
Ardipithecus
Australopithecus
Homo
Had biological and cultural characteristics of a modern human
Classified as humans
Homo
Had biological and cultural characteristics of a modern human
Classified as humans
Homo
Handy man
Homo habilis
Upright man
Homo erectus
Wise man
Homo sapiens
Speech gene found in chromosome
FOXP2
Was coined by social scientists to facilitate their exploration
Society
All powerful
Omnipotence
All knowing
Omniscience
Three theoritical perspectives of society
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionalism
Society is made possible by cooperation
Structural Functionalism
It sees society as an arena
Conflict Theory
It explores the issue of meaning-making
Symbolic Interactionalism
A complex whole which include knowledge
Culture
Three perspectives in Culture
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
Xenocentrism
Refers to the tendency of each society to place its own cultural pattern
Ethnocentrism
The idea that all norms, beliefs and values are dependents on their cultural context
Cultural relativism
Refers to preference of foreign
Xenocentrism
Refers to the physical objects of culture
Material Culture
Is anything that meaningfully represent something
Symbols
Most important set of symbols
Language
Is shared by the people in a society
Are general, abstract ideas
Values
Is an expectations of how people are supposed to act
Norms
They tell you what to do
Prescriptive
They tell you what not to do
Proscriptive
Three types of norms
Folkways
Mores
Taboos
Norms that have little strength and may within broad limits.
Be easily broken
e.g. manners of eating and dressing
Folkways
Norms that are strongly held, considered essential
Mores
Norms that are deeply held that even the thought of violating them upset people
e.g. incest
Taboos
A reward for people who exhibits expected or desire behavior
Positive Sanctions
Applied by people with positions of formal authority
Formal sanction
Form of punishment for violating important norms
Negative sanction
Applied by common people
Informal sanction
Consists of people’s ideas about what is real and what is not
Beliefs
Are what people considered as factual
Beliefs