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
