Understanding People

Question 1

Answer 1

Agency

• Actions of individual social actors embedded within a broader sociocultural context.
• Agents are decentred subjects whose identities are in part determined by their structural settings.

Question 2

Answer 2

Poststructuralism

If systems of signs are arbitrary, then the meaning can only be understood in relation to a total set of signs. And if all acts have a symbolic or sign dimension, then much of what we hold to be real or true can only be part of a system of signs. Therefore any claim of truth or objective reality is still based on an arbitrary system of signs.

Question 3

Answer 3

Structuralism: culture as the creation of unconsciously applied rules based in the unchanging structure of the human mind.

Question 4

Answer 4

In ancient Greece, the symposium was a drinking party and is commonly depicted on red and black figure pottery.

Question 5

Answer 5

5th C Sicily and the story of Ducetius. Ducetius, a native Sicel, created a synteleia, or federation, that at its height controlled a large portion of east-central Sicily.