Anthropology Flashcards

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Culture to anthropologist

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Full range of learned human behaviour patterns

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Social change

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Changes of societies organization and beliefs and practices of the people who live in it

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What do anthropologists focus there studies on?

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Enculturation - norms of the culture

Members of a culture learn and internalize shared ideas,values and beliefs

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4
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Cultural changes happens b/c

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Invention -new products or social patterns

Discovery- finding something unknown

Diffusion - culture sharing something with other culture

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Anthropologists

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Study constantly changing organisms

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Cultures made up of 4 parts

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  1. Physical environment
  2. Level of technology
  3. social organization
  4. System of symbols
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Theories of social change

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Acculturation - prolonged contact btwn 2 cultures interchange symbols, beliefs etc.

Diffusion- cultures sharing their culture symbols from another

Culture evolution- cultures evolve from common patterns

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