MODULE 2 PT 2

Question 1

comprised of a wide array of academic disciplines that study the overall functions of society as well as the interactions among its individual member and institution

Answer 1

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Question 2

3 PROMINENT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Answer 2

ANTHROPOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE

Question 3

STUDY OF MAN

Answer 3

ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 4

ANTHROPOS:
LOGOS

Answer 4

MAN AND STUDY

Question 5

a systematic study of biological, cultural, and social aspect of man

Answer 5

ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 6

The study on how social patterns and practices and cultural variation develop across different societies

Answer 6

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 7

The study on cultural variation across different societies and examines the need to understand each culture in its own context

Answer 7

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 8

The study on language and discourse and how they reflect and shape different aspects of human society and culture

Answer 8

LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 9

The study on the origins of humans as well as the interplay between social factors and the processes of human evolution, adaptation, and variation over time

Answer 9

BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 10

The study that deals on with prehistoric societies by studying their tools and environment

Answer 10

ARCHAELOGY

Question 11

He is best known today for providing of one of the earliest and clearest definitions of CULTURE one that is widely accepted and used by contemporary anthropologists.

Answer 11

Edward Burnett Tylor

Question 12

Authored, Primitive Culture (1871)

Answer 12

Edward Burnett Tylor

Question 13

he Mind of Primitive Man in 1937, and published Race, Language and Culture in 1940

Answer 13

FRANZ BOAS

Question 14

anthropology was a holistic and eclectic field of study, so to assess theories of cultural differences, one must be familiar with biology, interrelations of humans and their environment and such specific criteria as human migration, nutrition, child-rearing customs and disease, to name a few.

Answer 14

FRANZ BOAS

Question 15

The first student of Franz Boas and a prolific writer, he was one of the early proponents of Boas’ theory of “cultural relativism,” and a major force in bringing it into the mainstream of anthropology.

Answer 15

ALFRED KROEBER

Question 16

was the second American to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology.

Answer 16

ALFRED KROEBER

Question 17

Essentially this theory proclaims that culture exists purely for biological, psychological, and/or social needs.

Answer 17

MALINOWSKI’S THEORY OF NEEDS

Question 18

outlines the variation between a process and a function; a process being the “how” and the function equating the “why.”

Answer 18

BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI

Question 19

American cultural anthropologist, proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology.

Answer 19

CLIFFORD GEERTZ

Question 20

is “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life

Answer 20

Culture, according to Geertz,

Question 21

best known for her studies of the nonliterate peoples of Oceania, especially with regard to various aspects of psychology and culture—the cultural conditioning of sexual behavior, natural character, and culture change

Answer 21

MARGARET MEAD

Question 22

famous theory of imprinting found that children learn by watching adult behavior.

Answer 22

MARGARET MEAD