Anthropology Reading questions.
1. As cultural relativists we take the following position:
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our beliefs, morals, behaviours, even our very perceptions of the world around us are the products of culture |
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the content of culture is the product of the arbitrary , historical experience of a people |
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in so much as culture broadly and deeply determines our worldview, we can have no objective basis for asserting that one worldview is superior to another |
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cultures can only be judged relative to one another, and the meaning of a given belief or behaivor must first and foremost be understood relative to its own cultural context |
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all of the above is true |
2. The father of American anthropology is
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The German Jew, Franz Boas |
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The British nationalist A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
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The Polish nationalist Bronislaw Malinowski |
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the American nationalist Clifford Geertz |
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The German Jew, Karl Marx |
3. Which of the following statements about culture is NOT true?
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The capacity for culture is shared by all humans. |
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Culture is the major reason for human adaptability |
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Human groups differ in their capacities for culture |
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All human groups have culture. |
4. Which of the following is NOT true about culture?
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Culture is biological |
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culture is all encompassing |
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culture is shared |
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culture is symbolic |
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culture is learned |
5. In his analysis of joking and avoidance behavior, Radcliffe concluded
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they are standardized behavior that are meant to solve the same social problems |
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they are standardized behavior that are meant to solve different social problems |
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they are indicative of the primitive nature of people within small scale societies |
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they provide examples of societies that are insufficiently enculturated |
6. In looking at something like social integration, a structural functionalist focus would be on the _________ it serves
7. In looking at societies, scientists and social philosophers have attempted to create divisions between traditional and modern societies based upon social institutions. One of these scientists, Emile Durkheim, concluded that traditional societies were held together based upon similarities of experience, something he referred to as
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common kinship |
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organic solidarity |
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status group |
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mechanical solidarity |
8. As far back as Plato, humans have posited that is an real objective reality. As postmodernists thinkers we question this assessment of reality, while at the same time accepting the constructed nature of is real in its effects. Based on this logic, anthropologists take ________as the fundamental reality of social life.
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culture |
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society |
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language |
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the economy |
9. Tha anthropologists that argued that we view experience through a cultural lens was
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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
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Franz Boas |
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Clifford Geertz |
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Bronislaw Malinowski |
10. The authors provide a brief narrative of one of John's experiences with food. The authors use this mixup to make the following point
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both Americans and Mixtecs use an elaborate classification system to deal with food |
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the universal tendency of humans to create classification systems |
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that both the Mixtecs and the Americans view certain foods as inedible based upon their cultural learning |
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all of the above is true |
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none of the above is true |
11. One of the claims leveled at the type of research anthropologists engage in is that it is overly subjective. How do anthropologists overcome problems of subjectivity?