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1
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What are three reasons people live in groups?

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  1. The long period of physical and social maturation required by humans
  2. The psychological need for companionship
  3. the relative physical weakness of human beings.
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A Group is defined by what five following properties?

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  1. Consists of two or more people
  2. there is interaction or communication between the people
  3. there are one or more symbolic objects present
  4. each person has some kind of relation or orientation toward other persons and toward one or more symbolic objects
  5. there is unit awareness
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What is an aggregation?

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a collection of people who may have one or more of the five properties but not all of them

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how many types of groups are there?

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Two, Primary and secondary

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Define primary group

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refers to a group that is small, intimate, and informal

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Define a secondary group

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Refers to groups that are utilitarian, formal, and impersonal

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what is social organization?

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the regularization of interpersonal relations

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What are mutually exclusive groups?

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groups in which membership in one group excludes membership in another group or groups

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define overlapping groups

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groups in which membership in one group does not preclude membership in the other group or groups

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define inclusive groups

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membership in one group means inclusion in another group.

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define non-inclusive groups

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groups where joint membership is neither precluded nor requisite

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Define small group

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unit or collective that meets all the criteria for the group.

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13
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define a community

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a corporate body sharing sociopolitical identity

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define city

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usually talking about a metropolitan area with 500,000 plus people

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15
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define urbanized areas

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appx 500 households per square mile

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Jesus was a good communicator by expressing himself how?

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verbally and nonverbally in ways that developed interpersonal relationships for ministry

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17
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What group did Jesus form with his disciples?

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a small group

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18
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Interpersonal pyramid

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Satisfaction, trust, disclosure, acceptance, apprentice

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19
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Define self-disclosure

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the process of intentionally making ourselves known to another person significant to us

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We will undermine the process of self disclosure if we

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  1. do not respond to another’s self-disclosure with acceptance
  2. do not respond by reciprocally disclosing ourselves
  3. “overdisclose” far beyond the level of mutual trust established and thereby sabotage the relationship
21
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What are the four factors that produce normative behavior?

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  1. maximizing satisfaction
  2. value of predictability
  3. restraint of power
  4. secondary gains
22
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What are the five steps in research?

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  1. focus on the problem or issue
  2. Literature review
  3. hypotheses/purpose
  4. the sample
  5. analysis and conclusions
23
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Define Ethnocentrism

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The practice of interpreting and evaluating behavior and objects by reference to the standards of one’s own culture

24
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T/F Cultural relativism is believing the Bible is not true for all cultures

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false

25
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What are the four ways cultural anthropology may contribute to effective missionary strategy?

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  1. it aids the missionary in entering another culture
  2. it gives the missionary understanding of another culture
  3. it facilitates the communication of the gospel in another culture
  4. it aids in the process of planting the church in another culture
26
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The role of cultural anthropology is to insure that the message is…

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communicated in a culturally comprehensible way

27
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T/F since cultural anthropology is one of the behavioral sciences, Spirit led missionaries should us it

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True

28
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List what Malinowski sees as the 7 biological and psychological needs of all human beings

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Metabolism, reproduction, bodily comforts, safety, movement growth, health

29
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What does the word Anthropology mean

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The study of man

30
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What is the definition of a culture complex?

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Clusters of related traits seen as a single unit

31
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T/F Ethnoscience is a branch of anthropology dealing with linguistics

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True

32
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T/F all ministries are ethnic

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True

33
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How many distinct sounds does the English language have?

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45

34
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T/F Instinctive behavior is a prominent human characteristic

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False

35
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T/F All societies have an education program

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true

36
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T/F All behavior can be classified as either reflexive, instinctive, or learned

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true

37
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T/F the two styles of education mentioned in the book are Master-apprentice and teacher-pupil relationships

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True

38
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T/F Only humans have the capacity for a language

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True

39
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T/F Most words have an exact equivalent word in another unrelated language

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False

40
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Give an example of Nonverbal communication

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waving

41
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T/F the study of the sounds of language is called phonology

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true

42
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Economic anthropology is the study of ______ and ______ economies wherever they exist in the world

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peasant and primitive

43
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Give an example of an object that indicates status

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house

44
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T/F scars can determine status

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true

45
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How many classes of people are there according to scripture

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two

46
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T/F an example of achieved status is a persons age

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true

47
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Which of the following is an example of ascribed status

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a persons race

48
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Five basic subsistence technologies

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Animal husbandry
industrialism
horticulture
hunting and gathering
agriculture

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