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Anthropology 102 Final Exam well answered to pass
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Anthropology 102 Final Exam well answered to pass
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Anthropology 102 Final ExamFour subfields of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Biology, Archaeology, Cultural and Linguistic
Biology - correct answer ✔✔the study of humans as biological organisms, including evolution
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔the study of past human cultures through their material remains
Cultural - correct answer ✔✔the study of living peoples and their cultures, including variation and change
Linguistic - correct answer ✔✔the study of human communication, including its origins, history, and contemporary variation and change
Emic - correct answer ✔✔insider's perceptions and categories, and their explanations for why they do what they do(personal interviews)
Etic - correct answer ✔✔an analytical framework used by outside analysts in studying culture(uses surveys and statistics)
Culture - correct answer ✔✔people's learned and shared behaviors and beliefs
Ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔✔judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture rather
than the standards of that particular culture
Fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔research in the field, which is any place where people and culture are found
Participant observation - correct answer ✔✔basic fieldwork method in cultural anthropology that involves living in a culture for a long time while gathering data Ethnology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them
Social Stratification - correct answer ✔✔a set of hierarchical relationships among different groups as though they were arranged in layers, or "strata"
Achieved Status - correct answer ✔✔a person's standing in society based on qualities that person gained
through action
Ascribed Status - correct answer ✔✔a person's standing society based on qualities that person has gained through birth
Status - correct answer ✔✔a person's standing or position in society
Ethnicity - correct answer ✔✔a way of categorizing people on the basis of shared sense of identity based
on history, heritage, language, or culture
Caste - correct answer ✔✔a form of social stratification linked with Hinduism and based on a person's birth into a particular group
Racialized thinking - correct answer ✔✔insists that behavioral differences among people are "natural", inborn, or biologically caused
Franz Boas and race - correct answer ✔✔believed "race" wasn't biological reality, culture affects behavior not biology
Racial classifications - correct answer ✔✔people classified into different races by physical and behavioral
features such as skin tone, hair color and appearance, income, kinship ties, etc.
Social Class - correct answer ✔✔a cluster of people beyond the domestic unit who are usually related on
grounds other than kinship
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