Vocabulary Flashcards
culture
Power-ful defining characteristics or human groups that shapes their perceptions behaviors and relationships
Enculturation
Learning to become members of a group through Instruction from our parents, peers and indirectly through observation and imitation
ethnocentrism
the belief that one’s culture is better than another
Participant observation -
Field work that involves Immersing yourself in a society for a long period of time
Cultural relativism
The view that no culture is better than another
Ethnography
Fieldwork
Inductive
Based on day to day observations taking notes and asking increasingly species questions
Deductive
Reasoning from the general to the specific, a hypothesis then study is performed
Hominin
Humans, Homo sapiens and their close relatives and immediate ancestors
Paleo anthropologist
Biological anthropologists who study ancient human relatives
Participant Observation
An observation from being immersed in a culture and performing the same activities as natives
Armchair Anthropology
Research that does not involve contacting the people being studied
Cultural Determinism
The idea that behavioral differences are the result of culture not racial or genetic causes
Cultural Evolutionism
19th century idea that all societies evolved through stages savagery barbarism and civilization
Functionalism
Emphasizes the way that parts of a society work together to support the functioning of the whole
Going Native
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
Holism
Taking a broad view of the historical environmental and cultural foundations of behavior
Structural Functionalism
Focuses on the way customs and social institutions in a culture contribute to the organization of society and its maintenance/order
The other
Term used to describe people whose customs beliefs or behaviors are different from our own
