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Cultural Anthropology

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Heavily concerned with understanding the variations of knowledge, morals, laws, religion, etc. that occur between different societies

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Physical/ Biological Anthropology

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Very science based; concerned with the biological aspects of human beings from an evolutionary perspective

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Linguistic Anthropology

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History and languages and their evolution as well as endangered languages before they disappear completely

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Creole

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Two parent languages coming together to form a new language that their children use primarily

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Archaeology

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Hard work dedicated to discovering objects, artifacts and architecture

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Functionalism

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Alfred Radcliffe & Bronislaw Malinowinski
Attempting to describe how a culture was created by examining the relationships between and the different parts of society

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Structuralism

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Claude Levi - Strauss
Discovering hidden rules in culture
Binairy oppositions: Hot - cold Male- female

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Cultural Materialism

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Marvin Harris
Incorporates ideas from marxism as well as has the three levels; Infrastructure, structure and superstructure. CM supports cultural determinism

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Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud
id, ego, superego as well as the unconscious mind
psychosexual stages

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Id

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SF
Unconscious; instinctual drives (bad decisions)
(opposite of superego)

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Ego

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SF

Conscious; Rational, organized and realistic as well as conscious

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Superego

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SF
mostly unconscious; ideals, values & guilt morality
(opposite of Id)

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Behaviourism

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Anything anyone does can be recognized as a behaviour. Goal is to discover how people learn

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Classical Conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov
Dog experiment with bell and food
Stimuli come together to create a new response

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Opperant Conditioning

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BF Skinner

Bird Missile; Behaviour is a result of reinforcing consequences and the different types of reinforcement

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Cognitive Psychology

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Noam Chomsky

Thinking impacts behaviour, therefore could not be a behaviour itself

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Globilization

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Increasingly closer integrations of countries, cultures and economies, Few get more wealthy and many get more poor.

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Conflict Theories

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Feminist Theory

Marxism

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Anthropological Schools of Thought

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Functionalism
Structuralism
Cultural materialism

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Psychological Schools of Thought

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Psychoanalytical Theory
Behaviourism
Learning Theory

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Structural- Functionalism ED

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Why are some societies successful while others fall apart? Systems working together and the theory that society functions better when there are shared values

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Technological Determinism

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Technology drives and shapes societies structure and culture ( the cause and effect between technology and social change)

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Cognitivism arose due to the rejections of which behaviour? NC

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The prompt that thinking is not actually classified as a behaviour

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No other branch would be possible without the discoveries made in this area
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

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Archaeology

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Examines knowledge, laws, morals and customs that occur between different societies
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

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Cultural

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Documentation of endangered languages and drew connection between culture and languages
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

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Linguistic

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Essential in the debate on evolution. subdivisions include human adaptation
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

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Physical/ Biological

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which of the major disciplines can be described as the study of the development and structure of society
options: Sociology, Anthropology, Archaeology or Psychology

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sociology

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