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Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that foragers tend to be egalitarian?

Foragers are not as egalitarian as pastoralists. (This question should be about pastoralists).

Before 12,000 years ago, all human societies survived through...

Foraging

Which of these statements related to the study of sociolinguistics is FALSE?

Gender is the only social characteristic that is not consistently reflected in speech patterns and norms for communication within any given culture.

Which of the following statements is correct?

None of these statements are correct.

Which of the following is not one of the four strategies that capitalists use to increase profits:

all of these are strategies that capitalists use to increase profits.

Which of the following is NOT true about capitalism

all of these are true

Which of the following were not used as examples in the lecture on cultural construction:

all of these were discussed

The "tragedy," in the "tragedy of the commons," results from...

an inability to cooperate (organize collective action for the good of all).

Select ALL of the following scenarios that is likely to reduce the market value of human labor...

an overabundance of workers. robots that can do human jobs. reduction in the jobs available.

The belief that the world is animated by impersonal supernatural power- energy that can be lost, acquired, understood, and manipulated is called...

animatism

Since the 1990s, most anthropologists have been employed in this 5th subfield. Practitioners use anthropological methods, theories, and concepts to solve practical, real-world problems; practitioners are often employed by a governmental agency or private organization.

applied

Since the 1990s, most anthropologists have been employed in this 5th subfield. Practitioners use anthropological methods, theories, and concepts to solve practical, real-world problems; practitioners are often employed by a governmental agency or private organization. ________________ anthropology

applied

Select ALL of the following that reflect the key ideas from the course discussion of the religious experience.

around the world, religion is rooted in passionate feelings that transcend normal daily experience. different cultures explain the religious experience in different ways.

Which of the following describes the practice of moving in to live with the husband's mother's brother when you get married.

avunculocal

Egalitarianism is most closely associated with which of the four forms of political organization?

bands

Based on the video, "Wealth and Inequality in America," we find that most Americans...

believe that the distribution of wealth is actually more equal than it is.

I study Bonobo Chimpanzees in Tanzania. Which of the four main traditional fields (not the subfields) is most likely to be my professional specialty? ________________ anthropology.

biological

The term, "Nature," in the discussion of "Nature and Nurture," essentially refers to what important aspect of human behavior (this is a central them in this course). Select all that are correct.

biology genetics

The most common form of all marital exchange throughout the world is...

bridewealth

"Our leader lives in the main village. There are many thousands of us, so his job is very big. His father was also a leader, and his father before that. This is because the gods gave his lineage the power to care for the people and the land. People who defy him will pay a heavy price." This individual belongs to a culture that practices which of the four forms of political organization?

chiefdoms

The process of dividing observations into categories that can be compared and contrasted is called________________________, and is the foundation of science.The letters in this word are ( l s i s a a c c f n o t i i )

classification

A culture that names the sister of one's mother differently from the sister of one's father

classifies reality differently than we do.

The substitution of fossil fuels for human and animal energy is associated with what pattern of subsistence?

industrialism

_______________ is the result of the cultural construction of differences in the relationships that have been defined for various groups in a society. The entire history of the Civil Rights movement is a story of fighting to reconstruct these group relationships in more equitable ways.

inequality

Based on your studies of the origins of politics and inequality, choose whether the following sets of terms "influence" each other, or are "not clearly related." [ Select ] ["", "influence", "", "not clearly related"] surplus -> diversification of labor [ Select ] ["influence", "not clearly related"] surplus -> specialization [ Select ] ["not clearly related", "influence"] specialization -> complexity [ Select ] ["not clearly related", "influence"] multiplication of social groups -> sapir-worf hypothesis

influence influence influence not clearly related

Which of following BEST completes the sentence? Patterns of religious belief are...

influenced by cultural relationships to the environment.

Humans have a need to understand the world around them; the purpose of religion is to explain events and things.

intellectual/cognitive

Dean uses a tractor to till the soil for planting. Dean is part of a culture that practices what pattern of subsistence? (use the full name of the subsistence pattern described in the course materials).

intensive industrial agriculture

In terms of language, identification of different colors by different words...

is different in different cultures.

Today in India, the caste system...

is losing influence, but persists, particularly in rural areas

Cross-culturally, marriage...

is not necessarily a matter of personal or individual choice.

"I work for the Internal Revenue Service, as part of the government. I collect taxes to pay for government programs like social security or the Space Administration. If you get caught breaking the law in my culture, we have many groups of people whose job it is to evaluate your crime and administer the appropriate punishment. My people number in the millions." This individual belongs to a culture that practices which of the four forms of political organization?

state

According to the film of U.S. President, and former four star general, Eisenhower's speech, "we must guard against..."

the unwarrented influence of the military-industrial complex.

Which of these is the best description of an ranked society?

there are a limited number of formal positions that grant authority.

"Man is an animal suspended in __________ of significance, that he, himself has spun."

webs

About what percentage of annual income is received by the richest 20 percent of American families?

50%

Select all of the following examples that reflect one of the two core reasons for people watching that were identified in this class.

All, but none

Humans began living in the Americas approximately...

15,000 years ago.

Currently, anthropological research indicates that humans first had the capacity for culture by around ____ years ago.

80,000

In Hua society, where sexual differences are explained by the life-giving substance nu, post-menopausal women are permitted to live in the men's house. Why is this?

A life of childbirth and menstruation are believed to have purged them of most feminine substances.

You read a news story, stating that scientists have discovered that there is a gene "for" academic success. Your education in this class has prepared you to interpret this kind of information. Of the following statements, select the one that is most accurate.

Academic success is influenced by our genes.

All science attempts to describe and explain... (select all that apply)

All but science

Select the most accurate statement:

All cultures have changed and evolved over time.

Select ALL of the following scenarios that is likely to increase the market value of human labor...

All of them

Select ALL of the statements that accurately complete the sentence. Domestic organization is concerned with....

All of them

Capitalism provides the opportunity for an individual to purchase all the additional support necessary for the work of living, and therefore makes single living possible for many people. Without this economic support...

All of these answers are generally more important when people must work together in order to survive.

Which of the following are NOT correct...

All of these are correct.

According to anthropologists, select ALL of following aspects of gender are NOT culturally constructed?

All of these are culturally constructed.

In contemporary American society, the vast majority of construction jobs are occupied by men. This is because

All of these are explanations for male-dominated hiring in construction.

In order to research when human culture first developed, anthropologists...

All of these are means of studying the origins of human culture.

Globalization of the economy has resulted in...

All of these are part of the internationalization of capital and labor.

Which of the following statements is an anthropological use of the "culture" concept.

All of these are simplistic or non-anthropological uses of the "culture" concept.

Which of the following are NOT TRUE about the work of living?

All of these are true statements about the work of living.

Which of these is the best description of an egalitarian society?

All of these describe an egalitarian society.

Which of the following are NOT TRUE about work?

All of these statements are true about the work of living.

Match the activity with the appropriate example: Group of answer choices Defining the criteria for who gets included in the group. Defining the expectations for thought and behavior of group members. Defining the rights, privileges, and duties of membership. Defining the public style and character of the roles associated with membership in the group.

American Christian Mormon Professor

The "Endangered Cultures" TED talk, by Wade Davis, describes...

An Inuit hunter who makes a shit knife and a sled.

Which of these would NOT be considered an important contribution of anthropology?

Anthropology promotes the stance of moral relativism, arguing there is no universal right or wrong.

Why is abortion included in the discussion of identity politics? Choose the BEST answer based on the course materials.

Because the debate boils down to whether an unborn baby is included in the 14th amendment.

The idea that physical differences cause cultural differences is called?

Biological determinism

Which of the following is the best example of holistic thinking? Teenagers often say that they dislike school because....

Biological, cultural, social, and psychological factors all contribute to adolescent attitudes towards school.

Which of the following is NOT USUALLY an achieved status...

Class

Which of the following is NOT consistent with the course material.

Cultural construction applies to ideas, values, and things, but not to our expectations about how other people will behave.

Which of the following accurately describes the meaning of the term cultural construction.

Cultural construction refers to to the ways that individual cultures produce particular versions of reality.

Which of these statements best describes culture from the perspective of anthropology?

Culture is socially transmitted.

Select the most accurate statement.

Culture is the learned knowledge and behavior shared by a group of people.

Which of these statements best describes the relationship between culture and individual behavior?

Culture provides rough and sometimes conflicting guidelines for behavior.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Cultures emphasize some biological relationships over others.

Why is understanding the cultural construction of reality so important within anthropology?

It suggests that humans do not all perceive and interpret the world in the same ways.

Select ALL of following that are TRUE statements about debt.

Debt enables business, individuals, and countries to do things that are currently beyond their means. Debt is a way of subsidizing today with money borrowed from tomorrow.

Which of these languages is used the most widely in international commerce, global media, and popular culture?

English

Which of these statements about languages globally is FALSE?

English has more speakers than any other language in the world.

Archaeology is technically NOT part of the four fields of anthropology.

False

Globalization is when traditional cultures copy Western industrial cultures.

False

Some countries have completely free markets.

False

The competitive nature of capitalism contributes to primary cultural emphasis on the value of cooperation and the expression of success through selfless generosity.

False

The value of class stratification is that most people are able to move up the class structure in their lifetimes.

False

When Malcolm X encouraged people to consider their identity.

He wanted to construct new scripts for Black identity.

If the United States is a free country, what is the primary political justification for laws that require kids to attend school?

If the United States is a free country, what is the primary political justification for laws that require kids to attend school?

Which of the following statements about polygyny is FALSE?

In groups in which polygyny is a cultural norm, jealousy is not a problem.

Which of the following reflect American secular ideologies that support and promote the acceptance of social inequality? Select all that apply.

Inequality motivates people. Opportunities are not equally available to all.

Brian isn't sure where his food comes from originally. He mostly thinks about what store he needs to go to. Brian is part of a culture that practices what pattern of subsistence? (use the specific term from the course materials).

Intensive Industrial Agriculture

Based on the discussion from your book, on globalization and marriage in Japan, select ALL of the following statements that are correct:

Japanese women are having fewer children than they did in the past. Japanese farmers tend to be older men. Japanese women are increasingly uninterested in marrying farmers.

What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis state?

Language has a powerful influence on the thought patterns in any particular culture.

Which of these languages is spoken by the most people?

Mandarin

Over the past few decades what has happened to the distribution of yearly income in the U.S.?

Most American households got a smaller percentage of the total income.

Select all of those statements that are TRUE about the era of colonialism.

Most of the Indigenous North American population, including many cultural groups and languages, were destroyed by European diseases and intentional violence. European powers divided Africa and the Americas into territories, claimed them as their own, and used the local populations to do work and extract resources.

In most developed industrial economies, money is now created based on...

No answer text provided.

Which of the following is NOT usually an ascribed status.

Occupation

Which of the following is a potential consequence if the "really frightening thought" from the ways of knowing lecture turned out to be true.

Our beliefs could be like a house of cards that are built on a foundation of falsehoods.

Select ALL of the following that are Rituals in accordance with the definition presented in the course lecture.

Praying to Allah 5 times a day. Brushing your teeth every day. A Wedding.

Which of the following NOT an examples of identity politics?

all of these are examples of identity politics.

According to the film about Margaret Mead...

She worked with islanders in the Pacific and Papua New Guinae.

Which of the following are correct.

Some cultures distinguish between cousins on a person's mother's or father's side.

Select all of the the following that were recommended.

Take additional time to fill in details on notes Reorganize notes in order to clarify and structure ideas.

Which of the following are NOT TRUE about work?

The basic work of living is no longer an issue for industrial societies.

Select the statement that is correct.

The cultural systems diagram addresses the relationships between people and their natural environment.

Given your studies in this class, why does it matter how gods/goddesses are depicted?

The depictions need to be realistic and believable or people won't follow them.

Dadi, in Dadi's Family (film) is...

The mother and mother-in-Law

What is the difference between stratified and ranked societies?

The nobility in ranked societies are not generally a great deal wealthier than the general population.

In India, people born with male genitalia can go through a rite of passage resulting in a person bacoming, "Hijra," someone who is "neither man nor woman." Select ALL of the following answer that are correct.

The ritual involves the removal of their penis and testicles. The Hijra acquire special status and perform important rituals.

Which of these statements about polyandrous marriage is FALSE?

The wife usually sleeps with several or all of the brothers/husbands at the same time.

Which of the following is most correct:

The work of living will never go away, what changes, is how cultures attend to the work. PreviousNext

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that foragers tend to be egalitarian?

These are the four main reasons described in this class.

Which of the following BEST expresses an anthropological interpretation of this religious image.

This is a depiction that reflects the particular people and time in which it was created.

Here is the same fact from wikapedia, "The Oraibi village is the oldest Hopi village and has been occupied from at least 1150 C.E, and it has the most importance to Hopi history. It is the oldest continuously inhabited village in the United States" (Whitely, Peter, M. 1988, cited in Wikapedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi#cite_note-Whiteley.2C_Peter_M._1988-3 accessed 6-15-2010)Here, the student has included a citation, but did not include quotation marks: The Oraibi village is the oldest Hopi village. It has the most importance to Hopi history (Whitely, Peter, M. 1988, cited in Wikapedia). True or False: this is an example of plagiarism

True

In order to care about something, people have to know about it. We influence what people know and care about, by what we share.

True

National governments find it increasingly difficult to regulate global corporations because the business can easily move to another country.

True

Science encourages discoverers to actively prove that accepted scientific ideas are inaccurate.

True

Which of the following best expresses the concept of Imatatio Dea?

WWJD

Which of the following statements CONTRADICTS the course material:

We should never judge others when we are people watching.

An implication of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that...

What people experience as reality is a result of their language.

Select ALL the sentences that are in agreement with the discussion of cultural construction presented in this class:

What we experience as reality depends upon the story our culture tells about it. Humans create their world views by the stories they tell each other about it. What we call reality depends upon the story our culture tells us about it.

Based on the course materials, select the three important things that are determined by your social identity/role.

Whether you will be included or excluded. The relationships you are expected to have with your self, society, and the environment. How others are expected to relate and interact with you.

Which of the following is NOT supported by the ideas presented in the online lectures.

While there are subtle differences, anthropologists treat cultural relativism and moral relativism as essentially the same thing.

The most important influence on our beliefs, values, and life choices is...

Who we watch (observe) as we are growing up.

The video on New Belgium Brewery demonstrated that...

Worker ownership cannot be a profitable model for American businesses.

Select ALL of the following that are examples of natural limitations?

all of them

You're putting together a team of anthropologists from the following list of applicants. You need an individual from each of the fields of anthropology. Write the first letter of each of the four primary fields of anthropology to properly identify the field that is appropriate to each of the these researchers. For example, use "p" if the individual is a physical anthropologist. Do not write more than one letter for each answer.

a p c p l p a p c l

The difference between tribes and states is usually reflected in the presence or absence of...

a full-time bureaucracy

Select the best answer to complete the sentence. The combination of these two factors, (lack of direct access to resources, and the multiplication of social groups), results in....

a social context in which there are many different groups competing to obtain a portion of the surplus that supports their specialized work. PreviousNext

Learning is a physical process. (word begins with an "a")If you are not ___________, you're not learning.

active

It can be hard to know whether something is working well, or to imagine how it could be different, when we only see one way doing it. Anthropology manages this challenge by applying a specific perspective. For example, in order to determine what system of healthcare delivers the greatest benefits for the most people at the lowest cost, an anthropologist will study healthcare systems in different cultures. By looking at different cultures, similarities and differences are revealed along with costs and benefits. New, unexpected ideas also come to light. This anthropological way of exploring human culture and behavior by studying several different cultures is known as the ___________ perspective.

comparative

In terms of making decisions for collective action, power can be viewed on a continuum from:

concentrating power in the few <-------> distributing it to the many

Which of the following is most accurate:

culture consists of both the ideas and behaviors shared by a group of people

For anthropologists, _____________ is often what they point to in order to explain human activity. This term is concerned with circumstances or conditions (The word ends with the letter "t").

context

The cultural systems diagram describes a cultural _____________ that helps to explain why people think and behave in the ways that they do. (the word ends with the letter "t"). It refers to the various factors that influence behavior.

context

What important term, ending in the letter "t," accurately completes this statement. "Cultural relativism" is an anthropological idea based on the value of _________ as an explanation, i.e., rather than judge people based on your own cultural _________ (the circumstances that produced your values, tastes, opinions, etc.), consider the behavior in terms of the cultural _________ in which it was created.

context

Select ALL that apply. Which of the following represent ways that businesses attempt to avoid or reduce government regulations:

corporations are increasingly involved in writing the laws that regulate their own behavior. In other words, they write laws that are most likely to serve their profit interests. Truecorporations avoid governmental regulations by setting up businesses in countries where there are few limits and costs. governments are forced to compete with each other by reducing regulations in order to attract the financial resources of corporations.

When we learn about where someone is coming from, when we understand that their beliefs and behaviors are relative to their experiences and upbringing, we are practicing what important anthropological perspective/strategy?

cultural relativism

In the Domestic Organization diagram, relationships that emphasize biological connections are included in patterns of ________________.

descent

The Domestic Organization diagram shows that there are two key cultural processes for establishing family and kinship. They are patterns of and patterns of .

descent marraige

The question of, "what shall I be when I grow up"...

did not exist, or was not very important, for most of human existence.

What is the term for the transfer of wealth from a prospective wife and her kin group to the kin group of her husband?

dowry

Which type of religious organization involves a formal bureaucracy of religious specialists that organizes public rituals?

ecclesiastical

Which of the following is associated with a command economy?

economic decision making is concentrated in a small group of elites.

Social learning refers to learning by which of these methods?

enculturation

_______________________ is the term used by anthropologists to describe the process by which a person learns his or her culture. The answer is in these scrambled letters: (c t l u n e r u a n o t i)

enculturation

____ means that a person is required to marry within his or her own social group.

endogamy

The question, "what is good to eat," belongs to which of the three categories of relationship that were discussed in class lecture?

environment

Every culture constructs expectations for three categories of relationship that people will have, and that determine the content of our experience as human beings. What are these three key relationships?

environment self society

In the U.S., it is commonly believed that it is natural and normal to be married to only one person at a time. As a result, many Americans believe that people from other cultures who have multiple wives or husbands are behaving unaturally, or immorally. Anthropologists use the term ______________ to describe this kind of biased judgment based on the standards of one's own culture.

ethnocentrism

In the U.S., it is commonly believed that it is natural and normal to be married to only one person at a time. As a result, many Americans believe that people from other cultures who have multiple wives or husbands are behaving unnaturally, or immorally. Anthropologists use the term ______________ to describe this kind of biased judgment based on the standards of one's own culture.

ethnocentrism

Even groups that are largely self-sufficient engage in exchange with other groups. Anthropologists suggest that this is because...

exchange creates and sustains relationships that are necessary for other reasons.

The principle of supply and demand determines....

exchange value

On most days, Naya goes out to collect berries and roots to share with her family. Like most of the women in her group, this is one of her important jobs. Naya is part of a culture that practices what pattern of subsistence? (use the specific term from the course materials).

foraging

What pattern of subsistence is specifically organized around the importance of sharing?

foraging

What pattern of subsistence is usually associated with cultures that have no concept of private property?

foraging

What characteristic is MOST closely associated with industrialism?

fossil fuels

When parents provide children with food, shelter and other things, this is an example of...

generalized reciprocity.

Louli is a well respected tribal leader. People generally will do what he asks, but they don't have to, and will sometimes refuse. Louli commonly tries to avoid this and secure their allegiance by... (Select the TWO answers that BEST apply to this kind of leader)

giving away the most working the hardest

What is the term describing the processes that creates interconnections between people and societies around the world?

globalization

Anthropology emphasizes the use of a __________ approach that explains human behavior in terms of a combination of influences including biology, culture, history, and the environment.

holistic

The anthropological approach that is characterized by looking at the big picture, is called _______________.

holistic

Identify the three specific perspectives that are central to an anthropological view (according to our textbook): starts with letter "h" perspective, starts with letter "r" perspective, starts with letter "c" perspective. (do not include the word "perspective" in your answer, as it is already present in the question).

holistic relativistic comparative

Which of the following is most likely to have an ecclesiastical pattern of religious organization.

horticulturalists

The formula for knowledge helps us understand that the terms or labels that we put on and / or make it possible to apply our knowledge, e.g., to put the right kind of gas in the right place in our cars.

ideas objects

Knowledge = and/or +

ideas objects relationships

According to the course materials, we make many of our decisions about what to do, how to act, etc., based on our [ Select ] ["identity", "political affiliation", "race", "sex", "religion"] . We create these from watching the many examples that we see in our culture . When our [ Select ] ["home", "media", "race", "school", "culture"] is [ Select ] ["diverse", "modern", "primitive", "healthy", "evolved"] we have many options to compare and choose from.

identity culture culture diverse

The first members of our species, Homo sapiens, originated...

in Africa 200,000 - 300,000 years ago

The fractional reserve system refers to:

lending more money than is actually kept by the bank

When a person grows up primarily watching people from their own culture, they are not exposed to the many other ways that a person can think or behave. In this way, culture can act like a box that [limits] possibilities for what that person can be or do.

limits

I study the way that words and language is used to shape perceptions about war and climate change. Which of the four main traditional fields (not the subfields) is most likely to be my professional specialty? ________________ anthropology.

linguistic

In the Domestic Organization diagram, alliances are associated with what category of family relationship? Patterns of ___________.

marriage

In the Domestic Organization diagram, concerns about the wealth and social status of husband's or bride's family are included in patterns of ____________.

marriage

The Jewish practice of inheriting one's religion from the mother's side is associated with what pattern of descent?

matrilineal

Cultures that expect a man to move in with his wife's family after their marriage, practice which pattern of post marital residence?

matrilocal

The challenges of managing tensions between individual and group interests __________ as the groups/cultures/societies get larger and more complex.

multiply

Children in America are generally expected to move out of their parents house when they are married. This pattern of post-marital residence is:

neolocal

The ___________ of sociality refers to the tension between individual interests and group interests.

paradox

The anthropological research method that involves working, playing, and living with the people that one studies is called _______________ _________________ (the answer is NOT Fieldwork).

participant observation

All of Naninja's people are nomadic. Naninja is part of a culture that practices what pattern of subsistence?

pastoralism

The little boy who cried wolf was tending sheep before he would run back to the village to lie about it.... The little boy was part of a culture that practiced what pattern of subsistence? (use the specific term from the course materials).

pastoralism

The practice of inheriting one's last name from the father's side of the family is associated with what pattern of descent?

patrilineal

What pattern of descent it practiced in Dadi's family (film)?

patrilineal

Which term BEST completes the sentence? A __________ is a "generalization." The missing word has two "t's" in it.

pattern

According to what you have learned in this class, cultural anthropology is a license to...

people watch

Fill in the blanks for the proper words to complete the definition of politics that is used in this class. is the regulation and management of between , , and their members.

politics interrelationships resources groups

Match the example with the proper domain from the Cultural Systems Diagram: trade, redistribution politics lieages and descent kinship / domestic organization music worldview agriculture economics magic worldview marriage kinship / domestic organization horticulture economics social stratification politics norms

politics kinship / domestic worldview economics worldview kinship / domestic economics politics worldview

Based on the lecture materials, the concept of the paradox of sociality is particularly important for understanding the origins of....

politics and cooperation

Which of the following terms refers to the practice of one woman marrying multiple husbands.

polyandry

When Europeans arrived in the New World, they encountered continents that were...

populated by thousands of societies, from foraging bands to empires with populations larger than the great cities of Europe

This term describes what the process of turning non-profit government programs into for profit businesses. ________________ The letters in the answer are (z v t a r p i i e)

privatize

These taxes require wealthier people to contribute a larger percentage of their earnings than poor people.

progressive tax

Politics is the

regulation and management of interrelationships between groups and their members

Laws designed to constrain the behavior of business and industry in order to attend to the collective interests of the people, are called ________________. The answer uses the letters (o n t g l i r u s e a).

regulations

According to the online lecture, "The power to choose your _____________ is the power to shape your life." (the answer uses these letter: t a l s i h r i p s o e n)

relationships

Anthropology provides opportunities to increase your power by expanding the range of ______________ that you can learn from in answering the question of, "who and how to be." (the answer uses these letter: t a l s i h r p i n s o e)

relationships

Based on what we learned about knowledge, it's not enough to know, "car, tire, gas, engine, road," if we want to have the power of knowledge, we must also know the ____________ between them.

relationships

The core anthropological concept is based on the idea that people construct their version of reality in relationship to the particular context in which the culture has existed. Cultural beliefs, values, and behaviors, are ______________ to the circumstances in which they are constructed. Cross-cultural understanding means discovering the relationships that lead to particular constructions.

relative

Which of the following techniques can help us to overcome confirmation bias.

researching ideas and beliefs that contradict our own.

In, "The tragedy of the commons," the "commons" refers to....

resources that everyone uses and needs, but no one owns.

The question, "how shall I care for my body," belongs to which of the three categories of relationship discussed in class lecture.

self

A set of words (such as violet, red, and blue) that belong to an inclusive class (color) is a concept called...

semantic domain

Which of the following was emphasized in the slide lecture? When taking notes, it is helpful to...

separate an author's ideas from your own thoughts about them

We watched a film based on the work of Dr. Paul Piff. The film describes multiple studies that address the effects of inequality on the attitudes and behavior of both the wealthy and the poor. These studies have repeatedly shown that when people earn more money and have more opportunities to achieve their goals, they are much less likely to:

share with others.

According to the film about Margaret Mead....

she wanted to learn about cultural similarities and differences in adolescence.

Yali sometimes burns the forest to clear the land and provide nutrients for a garden. After a few years he has to burn a new section of forest for a new garden, while the old one grows back. Yali is part of a culture that practices what pattern of subsistence? (use the specific term from the course materials).

slash and burn

The culturally defined situation within which interaction occurs, and the individuals who are parties to the interaction, make up what sociolinguists refer to as the...

social context.

Marshall Sahlins noted that the kind of reciprocity that occurs between individuals or groups depends on...

social distance between them.

The price of goods and services do not generally include the long term environmental and social costs of production. As a result, these real costs are ultimately ___________. This word means that the costs are passed along to the public. The letters in the answer are (i i z c d e s a l o ).

socialized

When the public picks up the tab for damage to people and environments, the costs of the damaging behavior are said to be _______________. This word means that the costs are passed along to the public. The letters in the answer are (i i z c d e s a l o ).

socialized

The Ten Commandments of the Judeo-Christian religious tradition are an illustration of which type of explanation for religion?

sociological

The ultimate source of money to pay for these programs is (Select the BEST answer) Public education, public libraries, fire departments, police departments, prisons, the legal system, parks and wildlife areas, clean water, sanitation and waste disposal, infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.), emergency health care, mental health care, social security, medicare, disability assistance, veterans affairs, national guard, homeland security, department of agriculture, department of transportation, department of the interior, environmental protection, consumer protection, food and drug oversight, financial oversight, federal emergency management, FCC (communications), center for disease control, national institute of science, NASA (space administration), FBI, CIA, JSOC, and the military.

taxpayers

The number of indigenous people who died from European violence and diseases in the Americas during the colonial period, are estimated in the....

tens of millions

(Select all answers that are correct) The era of globalization begins at the same time as...

the European conquest of the New World the era of colonialism the voyage of Columbus

Most ethnologists believe that the essential basis for culture is...

the ability to create and use symbols.

In order to make a profit, successful businesses generally determine the lowest allowable price for their products and services based on...

the cost of production.

(based on lecture on the work of living) The basic source of work is...

the natural requirements of survival

The actual SOURCE of work is...

the necessities involved in our collective survival

Enculturation is...

the process by which the young learn the culture of those around them.

Both ritual and art are designed and intended to produce _______________. This is also the word used to summarize the four primary functions for ritual. All of the functions are about producing this. The word begins with "T."

transformations

"Unlike a giraffe, a house cat, or a daffodil, humans respond to environmental limitations by _____________ " their relationships to them. The correct answer includes these letters: "f n a r s m g i r t n o"

transforming

Here is a fact from wikapedia, "The Oraibi village is the oldest Hopi village and has been occupied from at least 1150 C.E, and it has the most importance to Hopi history. It is the oldest continuously inhabited village in the United States" (Whitely, Peter, M. 1988, cited in Wikapedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi#cite_note-Whiteley.2C_Peter_M._1988-3 accessed 6-15-2010)Here is what a student wrote without including a citation: Hopi people have lived in Oraibi village for almost 900 years. It is the longest ongoing occupation of any settlement in the United States. True or False: This is an example of plagiarism.

true

The film "Global Banquet" described increased suicides among farmers who could not compete against agricultural corporations.

true

We people watch in order to answer the question, " and should I be?"

who how

Limits on the number of hours in a workweek without extra pay, minimum wage, prohibitions on child-labor, guaranteed or paid holidays, sick-leave, maternity-leave, safety regulations, oversight agencies, and many more, all represent government interventions on behalf of values other than short-term profits. Most of these laws were...

won at great hardship by workers who faced stiff and sometimes violent resistance from employers.