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Anthro 1010 Vocab

Chapter 4

TermDefinition
Explination An answer to a why question-in science there are two kinds of explanation that researchers try to achieve: associations and theories
Variable A thing or quantity that varies
Laws (scientific) Associations or relationships that almost all scientists accept
Statistical association A relationship or correlation between two or more variables that is unlikely to be due to chance
Theories Explanations of associations or laws
Theoretical construct Something that cannot be observed
Falsification Showing that a theory seems to be wrong by finding that implications or predictions derivable from it are not consistent with objectively collected data
Hypotheses Predictions which may be derived from theories, about how variables are realated
Theoretical orientation A general attitude about how phenomena are to be explained
Cultural ecology The analysis of the relationship between a culture and its environment
Operational definition A description of the procedure that is followed in measuring a variable
Measure To describe how something compares with other things on some scale of variation
Sampling universe The list of cases to be sampled from
Probability value (p-value) The likelyhood that an observed result could have occurred by chance
Statistically significant Refers to a result that would occur very rarely by chance. The result would occure fewer than 5 times out of every 100 y chance
Participant-observation Living among the people being studied. Observing, questioning, and when possible, taking part in the important events of the group and recording them
Fieldwork Firsthand experience with the people being studied and the usual means by which anthropological information is obtained
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