Powerpoint Slides Week 2-3

Question 1

What isn’t culture?

Answer 1

Nationality
Ethnicity 
Race
Static 
Simple
Clearly Bounded

Question 2

What is a Cultural Construct?

Answer 2

A particular worldview or way of being that is normalized as obvious, natural, and/or universal by a culture (when in reality, it maybe purely “cultural” and not universal or biological)

Question 3

What is the point of the Nacirema article?

Answer 3

Mundane aspects of life that make perfect sense to us (insiders) are completely obscured when discussed by a total outsider

Question 4

According to the the Nacirema article, the _________ used to describe culture is powerful.

Answer 4

language

Question 5

In the article Nacirema what word was used, and how man times?

Answer 5

“Ritual” used ~15 times (not including title)

Question 6

List some of the words and phrases used in the article THE NACIREMA.

Answer 6

• “exotic”
• “magical”
• “ancient and secret”
• “traditional”
• “sadistic”
• “masochistic”

Question 7

What is the difference between etic and emic?

Answer 7

“Etic” is a perspective from the outside of a culture, group, or situation
“Emic is a perspective from the inside

Question 8

What is participant observation?

Answer 8

the method anthropologists use to gather information by living as closely as possible to the people whose culture they are studying while participating in their lives as much as possible.

Question 9

Is this cultural or moral relativism: There is no absolute right / wrong?

Answer 9

moral relativism

Question 10

According to _____ ________, all decisions and actions are equally correct or incorrect.

Answer 10

moral relativism

Question 11

According to moral relativism, all decisions and actions are equally _______ or _______.

Answer 11

correct

incorrect

Question 12

Moral Relativism has a ___________ / __________ viewpoint.

Answer 12

Pseudo-nihilistic

existentialist

Question 13

According to moral relativism, there is no responsibility to create _______ or to ________.

Answer 13

change

intervene

Question 14

According to ______ _________, there is no responsibility to create change or to intervene.

Answer 14

moral relativism

Question 15

Phillipe Bourgois was born in 1956, and received a ____ in 1985 at Stanford.

Answer 15

PhD

Question 16

_______ ________ was born in 1956, and received a PhD in 1985 at Stanford.

Answer 16

Phillipe Bourgois

Question 17

Phillipe Bourgois is a Professor of ___________.

Answer 17

Anthropology

Question 18

_______ ________ is a Professor of Anthropology.

Answer 18

Phillipe Bourgois

Question 19

Phillipe Bourgois was a Director of Center for ______ ________ and _________ in Dept of Psychiatry at UCLA.

Answer 19

Social Medicine

Humanities

Question 20

_______ ________ was a Director of Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in Dept of Psychiatry at UCLA.

Answer 20

Phillipe Bourgois

Question 21

What is the overall subject of the Bourgois article? What is it about?

Answer 21

Putting the drug economy and violence in East Harlem into a cultural context.

Question 22

How does the Bourgois article attempt to reach its goal? How does he study “street culture” in this part of New York?

Answer 22

Participant Observation:

(1) He moves into the neighborhood
(2) He gains the trust of and befriends individuals involved in the sale and purchase of illicit drugs
(3) This takes time and commitment!

Question 23

How is Bourgois’s study different than how a sociologist might approach the study of inner-city poverty and violence?

Answer 23

Participant Observation vs. Surveys, Statistics, “Data”

Question 24

According to Bourgois how might a suburban, middle- or upper-middle-class Euro- American (white) view violence surrounding the drug economy?

Answer 24

• immoral & senseless
• opportunistic
• ruthless
• due to lack of education
• due to “break down of family” and disintegration of “moral fiber”

Question 25

According to Bourgois’s article; the logic of violence It is a type of “_________ _______”.

Answer 25

insurance policy

Question 26

According to Bourgois’s article; the logic of violence is a way to prevent being ______ __________ ___.

Answer 26

taken advantage of

Question 27

According to Bourgois’s article; ________ has largely begotten ________.

Answer 27

Violence

Question 28

According to Bourgois’s article; the economy of drugs: why do people choose drugs over other jobs?

Answer 28

The kinds of jobs available to residents of East Harlem offer little security, little pay, little dignity.
The drug economy offers pay, prestige, power, but even less security.

Question 29

History of Puerto Rico and its people have been caught between which imperial powers?

Answer 29

Spain, United States

Question 30

History of Puerto Rico and its people: ___ – ___ of population left Puerto Rico.

Answer 30

1/3

1⁄2

Question 31

History of Puerto Rico and its people: more Puerto Ricans _______ the island than on the island.

Answer 31

outside

Question 32

What is epistemology?

Answer 32

the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion

Question 33

What is positivism?

Answer 33

The view that there is a reality ‘out there’ that can be known through the senses and that there is a single, appropriate set of scientific methods for investigating that reality.

Question 34

What is reflexivity?

Answer 34

Critically thinking about the way one thinks; reflecting on one’s own experience