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