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The Social Sciences Flashcards

1
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When did the divide between cultural and physical anthropology begin to develop?

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12th century

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In the 12th center what type of science did Cultural anthropology begin to become?

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Social Science

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In the 12th center what type of science did Physical anthropology begin to become?

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Natural Science

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What is Culture?

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The customs, belifes, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group

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Cultural Anthropology focuses on what?

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human cultures from begining to present day

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Social anthropology studies focus on what?

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individivuils interact in group settings

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What is Sociology?

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he scientific investigation of behaivor of individurals and groups in a society, and how they effect each other.

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What is Society?

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A group of people joined by common belifes, intrests, goverment, econimc systems and culture

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Sociology is the study of (present or past) society?

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past

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Anthropology is the study of (present or past) society?

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both

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Society studies lifestyles of groups in?

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Communites, Neigborhoods, Schools and churches

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What science is nicknamed “king of the social sciences”?

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Economics

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What is Economics?

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Economics is the study of how good and services are produced/distributitted

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What are the three basic questions of Economics?

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⁃ What should be produced?
⁃ How should products be produced?
⁃ For whom should the products be produced?

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What is Macroeconomics?

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Maceonomics borad view of all resoruces, factors of production

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What is Microeconomics?

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Microeconmics fouces on independent areas of economy such as busineesses, households, deomgraphic subjects

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What is Geography?

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⁃ Geographers study physical and human characterstics of the locations
⁃ Geographers study how people interact with there goverment
⁃ Geographers exame movement of people
⁃ Geographerst study regions (areas with similar charcteristics)
⁃ Geography how invirment effects culture

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What is human geography?

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The study of activities of individuals in geographic region or area is refeared to as human geography

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What is population geography?

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The study of demographics

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What is cultural geography?

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The study of cultures in a region

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What is population geography?

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The study of demographics is called population geography

Examin population movement and information about death and birth rates in geographic regions

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History is a?

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Social science and humanities

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What is history?

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The record of past events in order of witch they happened

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What do Historians do?

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Historians conduct reasurch to deturmen, accrucey significance and cause/effect of passt events

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What is Psychology?

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It is the study of the human mind and how it interacts with the body

27
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What overlaps Psychology and anthropology?

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Social Psychology

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What is Social Psychology?

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⁃ Social psycology used to reasearch beahivor and realtionships in groups settings
⁃ Social psycologists cous on reaseurch on how members of groups interact with each other

29
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How do anthropologist use social psychology?

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Anthropologitsts study the orgin of the physical social and cultural development and behaivor of humans

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Social-cultural anthropologists study what?

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They study the customs, culture/ social lives of groups in all settings

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What do Linguistic anthropologists study?

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Linguistic anthropologitsts invistagate the role of and changes to langugae over time

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What do Biophysical anthropolgists study?

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Biophysical anthropolgitsts reasurch evelotion of the human body look for earliest evidence of human and analize how cluture and biology influence each other

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Physical anthropologists examine what to understand what?

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Physical anthropoligitsts examine human relamins to understand population dememgraphics and factors affected populations (ex.desease)

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What do Archeologists examine?

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Achreologists examine and recover material evedence (ex.pottery) from past human cultures to determ history, customs, ect.

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What do Geographers analyze?

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Geographers analize distribation of phsyical and cutlural pheomena in local,regional, contintental and globel scales

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What do Economic georgaphers study?

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Economic geogrpahers study distibation of resorces and economic activiites

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What do Politicals study?

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The relationship of geography and politics

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What do Cultural geographers study?

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The geography and how that relates to culture

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what do Physical geographers study?

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Phsycial geograpehrs examine variation in climate, vegietation, ect. And how effect human activity

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What do Urban Geographers study?

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Cities and metropolitan areas geography and how that relates to transportation

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What to Regional geographers study?

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They study the physical economic polititcal and cultural characteristics of regions ranging in size

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What do medical geographers investigate?

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Medicial geographers investigate the health care delivery system, ediemiology and effect of enviorment on health

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What is Epidemology?

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The study cause and control of epidemics

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What is GIS?

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Geographic information systems

45
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Who uses GIS?

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Geographers

46
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What do Political scientists study?

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Political systems

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What do Sociologists study?

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the interaction, trace orgin and growth of groups and influence ACTIVITY
the cahracteristcis hw idividuals affect each other, and the effects oscial traits effect a persons daily life

48
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How do economics study?

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⁃ Conduct reasurch, collect data, moniter trends ect

⁃ Issues (ex.intrest rates)

49
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What types of behavior do Psychologists study?

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Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, and Social

50
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Demography is most closely related to the study of which of these?

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populations

51
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In which of these social sciences is the study of monetary purchases of a household most often explored?

52
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The scientific method is used most often in which of these social sciences?

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psychology

53
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Which of these subjects can be defined as the study of activities of individuals and groups in a geographic region?

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human geography

54
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In which of these social sciences would the subject of a field study examining the lives of a primitive tribe on a Pacific island be discussed?

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anthropology

55
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A research study on the effect of alcoholism among college students would occur in which of these social sciences?

56
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A narrative account of the experiences of the men who flew on B-17 bombers during World War II would be researched in which of these social sciences?

57
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Which social scientist would study the American Legion’s practice of displaying the American flag on Memorial Day?

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anthropologist

58
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Which of these terms can be defined as the customs, beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group?

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