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ETHN 101 MIDTERM EXAM Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 ETHN 101 MIDTERM EXAM The culture concept is problematic because - correct answer it lacks a concise mutually agreed upon definition Customs are institutionalized habits that have a(n) ----- emotional component, which t...

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ETHN 101 MIDTERM EXAM
The culture concept is problematic because - correct answer ✔it lacks a
concise mutually agreed upon definition


Customs are institutionalized habits that have a(n) ----- emotional component,
which tends to evoke negative emotional responses to people who do things
differently than we do. - correct answer ✔Ethnocentric


The term ethnic group - correct answer ✔all of the above


Political ecology is - correct answer ✔a holistic field of study that investigates
the intersecting relationships of politics, economics and society within the
context of overarching environmental issues and change


Cognitive dissonance is - correct answer ✔The feeling of angst felt by an
individual who holds two inconsistent ideas at the same time.


All of the following are examples of scientific laws except: - correct answer
✔The law of cultural evolution


Ethnic studies is primarily a synthesis of which two disciplines: - correct
answer ✔Anthropology and Sociology


The four levels of causation scientists employ when studying the behavior or
morphology of a species are : - correct answer ✔Proximate, Ontogenetic,
Ultimate and Phylogenetic

, Cross-species comparisons have revealed that : - correct answer ✔Highly
social mammals like chimpanzees, wolves, lions and dolphins display varying
degrees of xenophobic behaviors.


When one attempts to assess and understand a particular society's customs,
traditions, practices, and values on their own terms and without bias, this is
called ----. - correct answer ✔Cultural Relativism


Monogenists were pre-Darwinian creationists who believed that - correct
answer ✔All of the above


In Dependency Theory colonizers often create a dependency on the part of
colonized peoples by disrupting indigenous economies and social institutions
through the introduction of novel socioeconomic institutions. The colonized
peoples then become dependent upon the colonizers for their livelihood. The
means most often used to create such a dependency is - correct answer
✔Exotic Trade Goods


Polygenists were pre-Darwinian creationists who believed that - correct
answer ✔All of Above


Darwin's theory of descent with modification by means of natural selection
was based on the fact that - correct answer ✔All of the above


19th Century unilineal cultural evolutionary theory posited three stages of
evolution. These were: - correct answer ✔Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization


Lewis Henry Morgan is a 19th century unilineal evolutionist whose research is
relevant to van den Berghe's approach because he studied the evolution of: -
correct answer ✔Kinship

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