Midterm Flashcards
A perspective in Anthropology that attempts to study a culture by looking at all parts of the system and how those parts are interrelated
Holism
The study of people-their orginds, their development, and contemporary variations, wherever and whenever they have been found
Anthropology
The practice of viewing the cultural featured of other societies in terms of ones own. My culture is better than yours.
Ethnocentrism
The idea that cultural traits are best understood when viewed within the cultural context of which they are a part of
Cultural Relativism
A perspective in ethnography that used the concepts and categories that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under analysis. From an insiders vantage point.
Emic Approach
A perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and categories of the anthropologists culture to describe another culture. From outsiders vantage point.
Etic Approach
Is what makes you a stranger when you are away from home
Culture
The process by which human infants learn their culture
Enculturation
A group of individuals sharing a common culture
Society
A change brought about by the recombination of already existing items within a culture. A new idea in which a culture can change.
Innovation
The spreading of a cultural trait from one society to another
Cultural Diffusion
A system of sounds that, when put together according to a certain set of rules, conveys meanings to its speakers.
Language
A position in a social system occupied by designated individuals
Status
The behavior expectations associated with a specific status
Role
Performances of different statuses by the same person conflict because role expectations conflict
Role Conflict
We meet the same people in different social situations
Multiplex roles
We meet different people in different social situations
Simplex Roles
Inherited as a result of birth
Ascribed Status
Chosen or worked for or attained as a result if his/her personal effort
Achieved Status
The marital practice of having only one spouse at a time
Monogamy
The marriage of a man to two or more women at the same time
Polygyny
The marriage of a women to two or more men at the same time
Polyandry
The transfer of good from the grooms lineage to the brides lineage to legitimize the marriage
Bride wealth
A series of customs that formalize the relationship between a male and female
Marriage
