ANT 100

Question 1

What is the disease described as “bad sugar” in the film Unnatual Causes?

Answer 1

Diabetes

Question 2

Which populations in the U.S. live longer, healthier lives? Why?

Answer 2

People with high income in charge of their life.

Question 3

What did the Whitehall Study (described in Unnatural Causes) reveal about the relationship between wealth and health?

Answer 3

More and betta health

Question 4

What happened to the Pima tribe’s water? What impact did the loss of water have on their prosperity, culture and way of life? Who benefited from their loss?

Answer 4

Relied on river, when dame created water stopped following and the tribes’ lifestyle food died off.

Question 5

What kinds of structural factors created differing social vulnerability to the effects of Katrina?

Answer 5

the lower class and sea level, while higher class lived above the sea level.

Question 6

What is the difference between sex and gender?

Answer 6

Sex _ physical biology

Gender _ male/female. Various by culture role gender

Question 7

What are some features of American masculinity?

Answer 7

sport, powerful, muscle

Question 8

What are 2 biological characteristics that differentiate male and female?

Answer 8

sex orgasm
body size
bone size
genetic x,y

Question 9

What are some of the arguments for biological determination of gender?

Answer 9

Most young boys have more aggressive play than most young girls.
Sex differences in aggression are too large to be explained by society alone.
Non-human male primates are more aggressive than females.
Fetal boys are more active than fetal girls.
Girls with high testosterone show more aggressive behavior than girls with normal levels of testosterone.

Question 10

What are the arguments made for the cultural/social determination of gender?

Answer 10

specific toys
gender base chores
access to hood and health care

Question 11

True or false: It’s just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Describe one of the positions taken towards immigration reform found in the reading about U.S. immigration policy.

Answer 12

let everybody in the country
smart people should be allowed to enter the country
let people in for education purposes

Question 13

What are some measurements of the racial achievement gap?

Answer 13

standardize test score

college graduation rate

Question 14

What are Ferguson and Ogbu’s explanations for the racial achievement gap?

Answer 14

less positive reinforcement were given by the teacher _ Ogbu

social economic status _ Ferguson

Question 15

What are the two opposing environmental stressors that drive the evolution of human skin tone?

Answer 15

vitamin D

UV rays

Question 16

What is the gender binary?

Answer 16

only male and female

Question 17

Define sexual orientation.

Answer 17

people with romantic feeling towards each other.

Question 18

What is one advancement made by the feminist movement since 1970 as described in “A Day without Feminism”?

Answer 18

pregnant woman can not be fired.

Question 19

When does Katz say the notion of heterosexuality was invented by?

Answer 19

1920

Question 20

Give one example of how social vulnerability created different impacts of Hurricane Katrina on different individuals.

Answer 20

if you did not have financial access to leave New Orleans it impact you even more.

Question 21

What is the difference between an impairment and an activity limitation?

Answer 21

impairment _ problem with bones in the function of structure

activity limitation _ doing tax on action exuding a task or action

Question 22

What is the difference between an activity limitation and a participation restriction?

Answer 22

individual

not attend a class

Question 23

What is one feature of autism spectrum disorders?

Answer 23

visual things

repetitive movement

Question 24

What might be one evolutionary benefit of neurodiversity?

Answer 24

different way of thinking give you different way of perspective on a problem

Question 25

What are the four fields of anthropology?

Answer 25

biological anthropology
cultural anthropology
archaeology
linguistics