Cultural Anthropology : Quiz 2 - Culture
Who was responsible for the theory of functionalism?
Bronislaw Malinowski
The unilateral decision of one social group to take control of the symbols, objects, and practices of others is called
Cultural Appropriation
Who was responsible for the theory of social evolutionism?
E. B. Tylor
All humans are born with some culture.
False
People rarely hold conflicting values.
False
Anthropologists believe that a ______________ approach, analyzing human societies' phenomena by comparing the phenomena with different societies, is necessary to appreciate how artificial our beliefs and actions are.
cross-cultural
The experience of feeling that the way your culture does things is the right way and any different way of doing things is wrong is called
ethnocentrism
The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is called
functionalism
Because our values and beliefs include many elements of life such as clothes, food, and language means that culture is
integrated
A symbol
is something that conventionally stands for something else
How would a critical relativist explain Native American criticisms of cultural appropriation?
it is important to understand Native American claims from their point of view though it doesn't necessarily mean we should accept them as the only way to view the issue
Examples of social institutions are
kinship, marriage, and farming
"Owning" culture
means controlling symbols that give meaning
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
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
this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals
The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture
through systematic connections of different parts
The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as
traditions
Cultural relativism is important because it helps anthropologists understand and defend all the things that people in other cultures do.
True
Culture consists of the collective processes that make the artificial seem natural.
True