Anthropology Flashcards
Culture to anthropologist
Full range of learned human behaviour patterns
Social change
Changes of societies organization and beliefs and practices of the people who live in it
What do anthropologists focus there studies on?
Enculturation - norms of the culture
Members of a culture learn and internalize shared ideas,values and beliefs
Cultural changes happens b/c
Invention -new products or social patterns
Discovery- finding something unknown
Diffusion - culture sharing something with other culture
Anthropologists
Study constantly changing organisms
Cultures made up of 4 parts
- Physical environment
- Level of technology
- social organization
- System of symbols
Theories of social change
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