Chapter 1 - Cultural Anthropology

A qualitative approach to studying social life in your university might include all of the following except

the construction of statistical models to explain activities in the community

The practical use of anthropological knowledge to address real-world problems, sometimes called anthropology's "fifth field,"_______________.

Applied Anthropology

Assuming your culture's way of doing things is the best is

Ethnocentrism

Anthropologists have always approached a problem by specializing in one of the four subfields.

False

When did anthropology emerge as an academic discipline?

1800's

The nineteenth-century British anthropologist who is credited with the development of the concept of culture through an evolutionary perspective where the most evolved societies resembled the British societies in which he lived was

E.B. Tyler

Contemporary cultural anthropologists still rank societies along an evolutionary scale from "primitive" to "advanced."

False

The scientific method is a research method in pursuit of ultimate truths.

False

A key idea in the 1850s that shaped the discipline of anthropology was the emergence of a new scientific theory called "evolution."

True

When cultural anthropologists live in societies for one or more years observing social life, they are doing

fieldwork

A key element of the scientific method, which both explains things and guides research, is

hypothesis

Research that involves interviews, observations, images, objects, and words is a ________ study.

qualitative