Hard to Remember Questions for INTRO

Cognatic clan

A clan that reckons descent through both their mother and father is called a

Creole

A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called

Created; natural

A number of societies have the notion that men are _______ and women are _________

Biocultural

A paradigm that emphasizes humans that are made up of complex biological, cultural, and psychological processes is

Prejudice

A preformed, usually unfavorable opinion about people who are different is

Closely tied to important social institutions, such as kin networks, trading ties, and political structure

A substantivist would be most likely to explain the Kula cycle as

Summarizing symbol

American flag

Gender/sex systems

Anthropologists commonly refer to the ideas and social patterns a society uses to organize males, females, and those who do not fit either

Cognatic

Clans come in three types: matrilineal, patrilineal, and

Elaborating symbol

Dinka and Nuer and cow

Understanding how other societies make sense of selves, persons, and emotions

Ethnopsychology is largely concerned with

True

Genetically speaking, humans are a remarkably homogeneous species: there is far greater variation within human groups than there is between them

Genealogical method

If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?

Determinism

Jared Diamond's view that nature and environmental conditions (availability of oxen, for example) shape the characteristics and lifeways of a group of people is known as environmental ___________

True

Many non-Western societies have conservation traditions that are based on distinct principles of human-nature relationship

Women challenge men's domination over them by arguing and issuing ultimatums

Masculinity in Mexico

Corporate group

Most families function as groups of real people who work together toward common ends. Such family groups are referred to as

Native symbols

Sherry Ortner three kinds of culturally powerful symbols include everything except

Sign

Stoplight

Showed colonial governments that non-Western societies have order without formal government

The importance of structural functionalism is that it

Adjudication

The legal process by which an individual or council with socially recognized authority intervenes in a dispute and unilaterally makes a decision is

Morphology

The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called

Sociolinguistics

The study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society

Morphemes

Units that are made up of a combination of the smallest meaningful bits of sound are

Parole

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings (0n the street) rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

They are to blame for their sickness

Which of the following activities or behaviors is not part of the American sick role?

Surnames

Which of the following do Americans traditionally inherit patrilineally?

How one's research or advocacy can reinforce social inequalities and suffering

Which of the following is a dilemma facing an ethnographer of transgender people in the United States

Intersubjective

Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?

Cognate words

Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called