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Anthropology 102 Midterm Exam well answered already passed
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Anthropology 102 Midterm ExamAnthropology - correct answer ✔✔The scientific and humanistic study of human beings
society - correct answer ✔✔A group of people who depend on each other to survive and the relationships between them
culture - correct answer ✔✔The learned behaviors and symbols that allow people to live in groups
ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔✔the belief that one's own culture is superior to all other cultures; judge other cultures from your own culture's perspective; measure other cultures by your own cultural standards; Ex: the "American Way"
cultural relativism - correct answer ✔✔Belief that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to other cultures ways
holistic approach - correct answer ✔✔Anthropology combines study of human culture, history, language, and biology
Biological or Physical Anthropology (4 main sub disciplines of anthro) - correct answer ✔✔Study humans
as physical or biological entities;
Primary focuses on those aspects that are genetically inherited
Linguistic Anthropology (4 main sub disciplines of anthro) - correct answer ✔✔The study of language and its relation to culture;
Language is a complex symbol system that people use to communicate and translate culture
Archaeology (4 main sub disciplines of anthro) - correct answer ✔✔Examines the material remains people leave behind to try to understand past cultural patterns;
Interpreting patterns provides insights into the lives and cultural ways of other people in the past Cultural Anthropology (4 main sub disciplines of anthro) - correct answer ✔✔The study of human thought, behavior, and lifeways that are learned and typical understandings
Ethnography - correct answer ✔✔a description of society or culture, often as a result of participant observation
Emic - correct answer ✔✔(inside); attempts to capture what ideas and practices mean to members of a culture (placing yourself in that society)
Etic - correct answer ✔✔(outside); examination of societies using concepts, categories, and rules derived
from science; an outsider's perspective
Ethnology - correct answer ✔✔attempt to find general principles or laws that govern cultural phenomena through the comparison of that culture (discipline)
Applied Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the application of anthropology to the solution of human problems Ex: companies, military, institutions use applied anthro to help their goals
Forensic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔uses the tools of physical anthro to aid in the identification of the skeletal or badly decomposed human remains;
identify victims of crimes, warfare, and misconduct
Enculturation - correct answer ✔✔the process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group. Ex: Inuit children learning through elders and through games
Acculturation - correct answer ✔✔merging of cultures. Grew up in one and adopting into another. 2nd culture life
Culture and Personality Theory - correct answer ✔✔the study of enculturation gave rise to culture and personality theory in Anthropology;
a theoretical approach that holds that cultures could best be understood by examining the patterns of child rearing and considering their effect on adult lives and social institutions;
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