Exam 1 Flashcards
The Historical Method
1) Discover the Evidence: forgery, copy errors, limited vantage, and absent, broken, unlabeled, or damaged evidence
2) Authentication and Evaluation: Is this legitimate? What exactly does this mean?
3) Interpretation and Organization: How does one put together all of the information
Forgery
Using material that may not be accurate and form into your own story; using another author’s name as your own in the text.
Copy Errors
Transcribing/translated wrong (conjugated verb error)
Limited Vantage
Few-one perspectives on wars (even secondhand experience
Culture
Set of laws both formal/informal which direct behaviors of people within that society
-Culture are forms of codes directed toward people
Formal Laws
Set of written laws
Informal Laws
Behaviors that are the norms to society (what is expected for you in society)
Civilization
Society has reached a point of specialization, bringing about stratification
Ethnocentrism
When one culture based another culture to be inferior
1) Natural/Scientific Racism: color, body image
2) Religion: When one God is stronger than your weaker God
3) Via Conquest: Win the war/battle, stronger than you (loosing team)
Theology
Study of the divine/religion
Religion
An institution, made up from people; rules setup/regulated back to society
-External influence
Faith
Believing in something that you cannot see, attribute of with divine elements
-Why does it happen (internal influence)
Science
How does it happen
-Doesn’t compete with faith/religion
Kinship Groups
Entire family (aunts/uncles, grandparents-take care of children)
Nuclear Families
Husband, wife, 2 kids
