Chapter 2 Test review Flashcards
(28 cards)
Fill in the blank:
______ is a idea (concept) created (by then people group) to describe their experiences (realities)
Culture
_________ AND _________ help anthroplogists explain the idea of culture
Differences and Similarties
What are the 3 things that most cultures have in common…..?
Customs (traditions), language, and religion
What is another word for “ethnic fairs”?
Gathering
Definition of Culture Concept
To grow
When did anthropologists began classifying culture as a way of life?
Mid 19th century
What were early anthropologists called?
Armchair anthropologists
What theory was based on early studies?:
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
What is polygenesis?
Different people groups created seperately (ex. Evolution)
What is monogenesis?
Mankind was created by a single creation
How many years before anthropologists began to rethink unilinear cultural evoloution?
75 years
What is historical particularism?
Each culture is unique
What are power dynamics?
How wealth and power influences people’s culture
Cultures can be only understood in relation to _________,_____________,__________
History, ecology, and sociology
What happens if society decides that God is not important?
God’s blessing is removed and that culture suffers
What is cultural relativism?
Practices and beliefs are best understood elated to the entire context
What are stipulations?
Situational ethics
What is another word for empirical?
Observation (observating)
_______ __________ deals with scope of distinguishing belief (truth) form opinion
Epistemological relativism
What is revealed knowledge??
What God has disclosed to us
What is natural (universal) truth?
Things that are 100% quantitative and accepted by all
What is enthrocentrism?
The ability of someone to interpret another culture by theirs
What is the assumption that ones culture is normal not b/c of culture?
Tacit
What are the 4 elements of culture concept???
Learned, adaptive, shared, and integrated
