Quiz 1,2, &5
If you wanted to understand the norms of a society, you would be most likely to focus on
A cross-cultural perspective on eating insect larvae would reveal
All humans are born with some culture.
FALSE
When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.
False
Three broad theories of social structure dominate the social sciences. They are
Functionalism, conflict, and interactiona
Development anthropologists often think of themselves as
advocates of poor and marginalized people
World Systems Theory (by Wallerstein) helped anthropologists
better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world.
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to more thoroughly consider ________ in their field studies?
colonial history
Financial globalization has allowed for
corporations to move factories from one country to another
The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as
cultural imperialism
The process of learning culture from a very young age is called
enculturation
One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
Examples of social institutions are
kinship, marriage, and farming
Culture is
learned and shared
If a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged chairs, she or he would emphasize that
learning happens best when students are being talked at
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of
localization
"Owning" culture
means controlling symbols that give meaning
People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries are called
migrants
Norms are stable because
people learn them when they are young
Anthropologists overcome ethnocentrism by
seeing matters from the point of view of another culture
The idea that cultures pass through stages from primitive to complex is known as
social evolution
A cross-cultural perspective on eating insect larvae would reveal
the cultural constructions of insects as food
A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is
the first are analysts (critics) of development; the second seek ways to influence it from within
A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that
they explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists
to expand state power
The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as
traditions
Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate in a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a
transitional community
Globalization is
widening scale of cross-cultural interactions caused by the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas within nations and across national boundaries
The idea that Ongee ancestors make tidal waves and earthquakes would be understood by an interpretive anthropologist as
a way of explaining how the world works
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
push-pull factors
describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries
Cultural differences are often caused and amplified by
insulated incidences of rapid technological change
Because our values and beliefs include many elements of life such as clothes, food, and language means that culture is
integrated
An ____________ approach to culture, such as that promoted by Geertz, Turner, and Douglas, emphasizes that culture is a shared system of meanings.
interpretive
A symbol
is something that conventionally stands for something else