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IntroDuction to Anthropology

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Cultural Relativism   the ability to view the customs and beliefs of others within the context of their culture rather than ones own (relating ones own culture to another)= objective observation  
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Ethnocentrism   the tendency to judge the customs and beliefs of others based on the standards of one's own culture= subjective observation  
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Inference   a conclusion drawn from an objective observation  
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Anthropologists Antropology   study humans the study of human beings  
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Objective Observations   an observation that is free of personal bias/ opinion  
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Subjective Observations   an observation that contains a personal bias/ opinion  
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Outsider Perspective   the perspective of a foreigner (anthropologist) who is studying a culture quite different from their own  
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Ethnography   "Writing about peoples" gathering info on contemporary cultures through fieldwork  
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Ethnology   the interpretation and analysis of the data collected during ethnography/fieldwork  
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Fieldwork   living among the members of a group in order to understand their contemporary ways of thinking and behaving= participant observation  
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Unwritten Rules   are the unwritten and often unspoken social norms of a particular group/culture that are very important and learned through enculturation  
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Sub-culture   is a group of people with a distinct set of behaviors that differs from the larger culture of which they are a part of  
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Driving question   why do societies change?  
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Sub-topic   an anthropologic look at inequality  
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Two Branches   1. Physical 2. Cultural  
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Culture   any form of behavior that is learned (from society) rather than inherited or instinctive  
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Enculturation   the training in one's own culture through conscious and sub-conscious means. The way in which we acquire our culture (process)  
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