Vocabulary

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

Power-ful defining characteristics or human groups that shapes their perceptions behaviors and relationships

Question 2

Enculturation

Answer 2

Learning to become members of a group through Instruction from our parents, peers and indirectly through observation and imitation

Question 3

ethnocentrism

Answer 3

the belief that one’s culture is better than another

Question 4

Participant observation -

Answer 4

Field work that involves Immersing yourself in a society for a long period of time

Question 5

Cultural relativism

Answer 5

The view that no culture is better than another

Question 6

Ethnography

Answer 6

Fieldwork

Question 7

Inductive

Answer 7

Based on day to day observations taking notes and asking increasingly species questions

Question 8

Deductive

Answer 8

Reasoning from the general to the specific, a hypothesis then study is performed

Question 9

Hominin

Answer 9

Humans, Homo sapiens and their close relatives and immediate ancestors

Question 10

Paleo anthropologist

Answer 10

Biological anthropologists who study ancient human relatives

Question 11

Participant Observation

Answer 11

An observation from being immersed in a culture and performing the same activities as natives

Question 12

Armchair Anthropology

Answer 12

Research that does not involve contacting the people being studied

Question 13

Cultural Determinism

Answer 13

The idea that behavioral differences are the result of culture not racial or genetic causes

Question 14

Cultural Evolutionism

Answer 14

19th century idea that all societies evolved through stages savagery barbarism and civilization

Question 15

Functionalism

Answer 15

Emphasizes the way that parts of a society work together to support the functioning of the whole

Question 16

Going Native

Answer 16

Becoming fully integrated into a cultural group through acts of leadership, assuming key roles, marriage, or other behaviors to incorporate the anthropologist into the society

Question 17

Holism

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Taking a broad view of the historical environmental and cultural foundations of behavior

Question 18

Structural Functionalism

Answer 18

Focuses on the way customs and social institutions in a culture contribute to the organization of society and its maintenance/order

Question 19

The other

Answer 19

Term used to describe people whose customs beliefs or behaviors are different from our own