Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Anthro 100 MT 2 uofr
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Why does kinship matter? | Know who you can marry and know what you can expect from others and what they can expect from you. Also need to know who will care for you and who are you expected to care for |
| Bilateral | Emphasis on both the mothers and fathers group |
| Patrilineal | Emphasis on fathers group |
| Matrilineal | Emphasis on mothers group |
| Unilineal | Either matrilineal or patrilineal |
| Marriage Basics | Exogamy or endogamy? incest taboos. Arranged or love? opposite sex or same sex? |
| Polygamy | A form of marriage in which a person is permitted to have more than one spouse |
| Polyandry | female can have more husbands. Cases in Canada? yes. Second husband legally |
| Polygyny | male form, married to multiple women. Group of mormons in utah and changed laws of child support, moved to arizona that changed their laws, settled in BC. polygyny concerns: Incest, potential abused, forced marriage, lack of choice, slippery slope |
| individualistic | egosentric understanding of self. introduce ourselves as our name and profession |
| sociocentiric | self is context dependent. In morocco, people put emphasis on damily name and village. to remove yourself from community is to lose your identity. |
| Ghandi | individuals are drops of water in the water. the drops can't survuve with out ocean but ocean loses its identitiy w/o drops. |
| Robin lackoff | gender construction and use of language. North america women raise voice towards end and quetion at end. Female have lisps. Soften how they say their words. "female speak". |
| Identitiy communication | We can communicate our identity to others through the way we dress, speak, and through the giving and recieving of gifts. |
| Gifts | Can of soup with meaning, soup with spiderman because they know you like it, gives it meaning |
| Generalized | Will eventually be obligated to return gift. Assumptions that overtime things will be paid back, reciprocate. |
| balanced | christmas: exchange gifts with the same amount of value within specific perod of time |
| negative | one person expects to get something of nothing. |
| generalized reciprocity | A form of exchange in which persons share what they have with others but expect them to reciprocate later. |
| Donations or volunteering | Good feeling is something in return. being validated on social landscape. |
| Arnold van gennep: | : Seperation (movementform 1 identity to next), liminal (in transition, authorized members of new group being transfered to) and reintegration (returned to group and considered in position of new identity) |
| "right of passage" | ritual take place from moving from one place |
| Victor turner: Betwixt and between | when you leave your community you can shed aspects of yourslef. Spring break you can explore a new identity. "what happens in vegas stays in vegas" the hangover: caught it betwixt and between. |
| exogamy | marrying our of their own clan into another |
| endogamy | marrying within ones own clan |
| brideswealth | The valuables that that a groom or his family are expected or obligated to present to the brides family |
| Dowry | The goods and valuables a bride's family supplies to the grooms family or to the couple |
| Exploitative Theory of Social Stratification | A theory based on the assumption that social stratification and hierarchy exist because one group of individuals seeks to take advantage of another group for economic purposes |
| Extended Family | A family group based on blood relations of three or more generations |
| Family Orientation | The family group that consists of ego and ego's father, mother, and siblings |
| Family Procreation | The family group consists of a husband, a wife, and their children |
| Feud | Purposeful, organized, and socially sanctioned combat involving killing |
| Identity toolbox | Features a persons identity(gender, age, personal appearance) that he or she chooses to emphasize in constructing a social self. |
| Ideology of Class | A set of beliefs characteristic of stratified societies that justifies the division of a society into groups with differential rights and privileges as being natural and right |
| Impartable Inheritance | A form of inheritance in which family property is passed undivided to on heir. |
| Incest Taboo | A rule that prohibits sexual relations among certain categories of kin, such as brothers or sisters, parents and children, or, in some cases, cousins |
| Individualistic | A view of the self in which the individual is primarily responsible for his or her own actions |
| Integrative Theory of Social Stratification | A theory based on the assumption that social hierarchy is necessary for the smooth functioning of society |
| Negative reciprocity | A form of exchange in which the object is to get something for nothing or make a profit |
| Nuclear Family | The family group consisting of father, mother, their biological or adopted children |
| Partible Inheritance | A form of inheritance in which the goods of property of a family is divided among their heirs |
| Principle of Reciprocity | The social principle that giving a gift creates social ties with the person receiving it, who eventually is obliged to reciprocate |
| Social Classes | A system of social stratification based on income or possession of wealth and resources. Individual social mobility is possible in a class system. |
| Sociocentric | A view of the self that is context-dependent; there is no intrinsic self that can possess enduring qualities |
| Eugenics | The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics |
| Negative Eugenics | eliminating and lowering feritlity amoung those deemed genetically disadvantages. |
| in vitro ferilizations | : wealthy and fit seek this treatment, costs money, we support it because we want the good, and eliminate the bad |
Created by:
davidvachon1
Popular Anthropology sets