ATT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Nomothetic - Answer-approach geared toward producing generalizations or scientific laws. (Contrasts with ideographic). Positivism - Answer-doctrine that scientific knowledge pertainsonly to empirical experience and is built up through the generation of propositional knowledge. Materialism - Answer-the philosophical perspective based upon a material ontology in which causality is attributed to the physical properties of things, whether molecules, bacteria, brains or cultures. It is associated with the view that all things can be explained in terms of their material attributes. Skepticism - Answer-fundamental principle of modern science where any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief Replicability - Answer-the scientific requirement that results must be tested by different researchers in order to establish the validity of propositions. Deduction - Answer-logical reasoning from the general to the particular, or reasoning which starts with a proposition and stipulates the consequences that follow from that proposition. Induction - Answer-inference of propositions on the basis of specific observations Theory - Answer--a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something -a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based -an idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action - A set of hypotheses that have not been refuted and have explanatory value Hypothesis - Answer-a testable propositon about a set of expectations derived from a theory that should be found in a real world if the theory is valid Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer-"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities" Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer-"configurations of culture growth" Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer-"Psychology is what is not culture" Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer-"Psychological reductionism cannot explain ethnographic facts"