MODULE 2.3 The Self from the Perspective of Anthropology

Question 1

is a field of the social sciences that focuses
on the study of man. Not just on one aspect of man, but the totality of what it means to be human. The field looks into man’s physical/biological characteristics, social relationships, and the influence of his culture from the dawn of civilization up to the present.

Answer 1

Anthropology

Question 2

Everything in anthropology is ___ and a
complete understanding is necessary to achieve better understanding of oneself

Answer 2

interconnected

Question 3

There are 4 subfields of Anthropology that suggests that human beings are similar and very different at the same time:

Answer 3

Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology

Question 4

is a scientist who studies artifacts in order to discover how people lived their lives.

As a result, they have discovered humans adapted to changes in their environment in
order for them to survive.

Answer 4

Archeologist

Question 5

They believe that homo sapiens did not become extinct because of their ability to think, use tools,
and learn from experience

Answer 5

Archaeology

Question 6

Archaeology

This discoveries made people realize that the most important aspect of human life is ____.

Answer 6

survival

Question 7

Human Behavior according to _____, continues to adapt, in order to survive

Answer 7

School of Functionalism

Question 8

Men are similar, but the manner they use to survive differs. This is the dilemma that___continuously searching for answers

Answer 8

archaeology

Question 9

Focus primarily on how the human body adapts to the different earth environments. They look at the probable cause of diseases, mutation and death. They are interested in explaining how biological
characteristics of human beings affect how
they lived their lives.

Answer 9

Biological Anthropologists

Question 10

They study people in different places and discovered that while human beings vary in
their biological make-up and behavior, there
are a lot more similarities among them than there are differences

Answer 10

Biological Anthropologists

Question 11

Biological characteristics of humans beings
share may earn for them complete dominion
over all earth creatures and at the same time
be the cause of their extinction.

Answer 11

Biological Anthropology

Question 12

Human survival is primarily linked to their ability to communicate and an essential part of human communication is language.

Answer 12

Linguistic Anthropology

Question 13

identifies group of people; words, sounds, symbols, writings and signs that are used are reflections of a group’s culture.

Answer 13

Language

Question 14

used language to discover a group’s manner of social interaction, to create and share meanings to form ideas, concepts, and to promote social change, and how language change over time.

Answer 14

Linguistic Anthropologists

Question 15

Language is reflective of the time and mode of thinking of the people using it. As societies change and technologies develop, so do the ___ and meaning people use through language as their way of communicating

Answer 15

symbols

Question 16

group of people’s way of life. Including their behavior, beliefs, values, and symbols that they
accept, socially transmitted through communication and imitation from generation to generation.

Answer 16

Culture

Question 17

focus in knowing what makes one group’s manner of living particularly to that group and forms an essential part of
the member’s personal and social identity

Answer 17

Cultural Anthropologists

Question 18

Where culture has a strong impact on how individual view himself.

Answer 18

Theory of Cultural Determinism

Question 19

According to this theory, human nature is determined by the ideas, meanings, beliefs, and values learned as member of a society.

Answer 19

Theory of Cultural Determinism

Question 20

Who or what a person is maybe determined by the kind of ___ he is born into and grew up in.

Answer 20

culture

Question 21

Having different cultures, Cultural Anthropologists suggests that there is ___. The right way is always based on culture. Since culture vary, there is no one way of understanding human nature

Answer 21

no universal or right way of being human

Question 22

Theory of Cultural Determinism

This theory has positive and negative implications.

Human beings can be shaped to have the kind
of life they prefer. There is no limit placed on the
human ability to be or to do whatever they set
their minds and hearts into.

Answer 22

Positive

Question 23

Theory of Cultural Determinism

This theory has positive and negative implications

People have no control over what they learn.
They blindly accept the learning their culture
expose them to. They are seen as helpless and
do only what their culture instructs them to
do.

Answer 23

Negative

Question 24

Cultural diversities are manifested in different ways and at different levels of depth.

___ are considered the most superficial level of culture

___ belong to the deepest level or are considered as the core of culture.

Answer 24

Symbols

Values

Question 25

Ways in which culture may manifest itself in people:

Answer 25

Symbols
Heroes
Rituals
Values

Question 26

words, gestures, symbols, that have recognized meaning in a particular culture.
Ex: Rings that signify commitmen

Answer 26

Symbols

Question 27

Person from the past or present who have
characteristics that are important in a culture. They may be real or fictitious and are models of behavior.

Ex: Real – Jose Rizal
Fictitious – Darna

Answer 27

Heroes

Question 28

Activities, may be religious or social, participated in by a group of people for the fulfillment of desired objectives and are considered to be socially essential.

Ex: Baptism, Weddin

Answer 28

Rituals

Question 29

Are unconscious, and can neither be discussed nor
be directly observed but can only be inferred from the way people act and react to circumstances and situations.

Ex: Kissing of the hand of elder

Answer 29

Values

Question 30

___ makes the person aware that what he is maybe determined by his past, and present condition, his biological characteristics, the way he communicates, the language that he uses and the manner in which he chooses to live his life

Answer 30

Anthropology