Empirical subfields - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What do we study in comparative politics? Politics, culture, and the economy of other countries How do we gain knowledge in comparative politics? Field work, collecting data, archival research What is field work? When one spends time in other countries conducting research, this can also involve interview and/or archival work What is collecting data? Cross-national comparisons require data from many countries (i.e. popular opinion, GDP, PPP, HBI, and types of government) ...

Anthropology - The study of man. Interdisciplinary and holistic. 4 Subfields of Anthropology - Biological, Archaeology, Cultural, Linguistic 6 Attributes of being human - Bipedalism, Non-honing chewing, speech, hunting (tools and strategies), Domesticated food (plants & animals), Material Culture/tools The father of American Anthropology - Franz Boas. Studied Inuits. What is science? - Empirical process that relies on evidence and experiment. Has to employ the scientif...

Define Geography - Study of Earth's physical features, inhabitants, and their spatial relationships/interactions Subfields of geographic study - Physical(landforms, water, soil, and animals) and Human(culture, economic and political) The Primary Steps of the Scientific Method - Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Peer view, and Conclusion 4 primary environmental spheres - Atmosphere(air), Lithosphere(stone), Hydrosphere(water), and Biosphere(life) Latitude (parallels) - Lines go...

COMPLETE - Elaborated Test Bank for Essentials of Physical Anthropology 10ED.by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan & Eric Bartelink Ch 1: Introduction to Physical Anthropology Ch 2: The Development of Evolutionary Theory Ch 3: The Biological Basis of Life Ch 4: Heredity and Evolution Ch 5: Processes of Macroevolution Ch 6: An Overview of the Primates Ch 7: Primate Behavior Ch 8: Primate and Hominin Origins Ch 9: The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo Erectus and Cont...

TEST BANK FOR UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY, 15TH EDITION, ROBERT FELDMAN Student name:__________ MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Psychology is defined as the A) intuition-based approach to study human behavior. B) speculative method to find answers about human cognition. C) study of mental disorders and their treatment. D) scientific study of behavior and mental processes. 2) Akira ...

COMPLETE - Elaborated Test Bank for Essentials of Physical Anthropology 10ED.by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan & Eric Bartelink Ch 1: Introduction to Physical Anthropology Ch 2: The Development of Evolutionary Theory Ch 3: The Biological Basis of Life Ch 4: Heredity and Evolution Ch 5: Processes of Macroevolution Ch 6: An Overview of the Primates Ch 7: Primate Behavior Ch 8: Primate and Hominin Origins Ch 9: The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo Erectus and Cont...

UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHOLOGY (TEST BANK)15TH EDITION BY FELDMAN ROBERT BEST STUDY GUIDE FOR REVISION ON PSYCHOLOGY ANSWERS GRADED GUARANTEED A+ ALL CHAPTERS ARE INCLUDED(1-17) ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER Chapter 1 Student name: MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Psychology is defined as the A) intuition-based approach to study human behavior. B) speculative method to find answers about hu...

(Complete Solution pack) Sobo ANTH 402 Section 1, Quiz 1-4, Test Exam Ch 1 2 3 4 5 Final. Complete Verified solution. biological determinism an argument that biology determines completely one's capacities and characteristics what is a negative effect of biological determinism bio-determinism can lead people to place false limitations on their potential (ex: only men can fix cars, white people are better than black, the poor are dim-witted) cultural determinism culture (rather than biolo...

UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHOLOGY (TEST BANK)15TH EDITION BY FELDMAN ROBERT BEST STUDY GUIDE FOR REVISION ON PSYCHOLOGY ANSWERS GRADED GUARANTEED A+ ALL CHAPTERS ARE INCLUDED(1-17) ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER Chapter 1 Student name: MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Psychology is defined as the A) intuition-based approach to study human behavior. B) speculative method to find answers about ...

X. The Primacy of Sociology? A. Although many disciplines contribute to criminology, criminologists primarily operate from a sociological perspective 1. This means that many theories of criminal behavior are based in sociology 2. The social problems vs. social responsibility theme used in the text is an example of this B. Not everyone agrees that the sociological perspective should be given increased importance in criminology today 1. Those arguing in favor of the primacy of sociology emph...