ANTH Quiz 2 Culture

Who was responsible for the theory of functionalism?

Bronislaw Malinowski

All humans are born with some culture.

False

People rarely hold conflicting values.

False

The American anthropologist responsible for the concept of historical particularism was named

Franz Boas

The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is

Renato Rosaldo

Culture is uniquely human.

True

What is a symbol?

all of the above; A symbol is a type of sign. A sign is a thing that we can perceive that has a meaning.

Ethnocentrism

all of the above; The tendency to view one's own culture as superior. To apply one's own culture values to judge people raised in other cultures

Cultural determinism is unproductive for cultural analysis because

all of the above; it explains all human action as the product of culture alone, it can justify atrocities, it denies the influence of factors like physical environment and biology on humans

Examples of social institutions are

all of the above; kinship, marriage, and farming

The process of learning culture from a very young age is called

enculturation

The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is called

functionalism

The perspective that aims to identify and understand cultures in the entirety is called

holistic

The defining feature of historical particularism is

individual societies develop particular cultural traits and undergo a unique process of change

Culture is

learned and shared

"Owning" culture

means controlling symbols that give meaning

The structuralist approach to culture theorizes that

people make sense of the world through binary oppositions

The idea that embraces dynamic cultural processes and the idea that the observer of cultural processes can never see culture completely objectively represent

post-structuralism

Anthropologists overcome ethnocentrism by

seeing matters from the point of view of another culture

The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture

through systematic connections of different parts