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Anthropology
Chapter #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, share , and contested by a group of people. |
| Enculturation | The process of learning culture. |
| Norms | Ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular situation or toward certain other people. |
| Values | Fundamental beliefs, about what is important, what makes a good life, and what is true, right, and beautiful. |
| Symbol | anything. That represents something else |
| Mental map of reality | Cultural classifications of what kind of people and things exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classification. |
| Cultural relativism | Understanding a group’s beliefs and practices within their own cultural context, without making judgment. |
| Unilineal cultural evolution | the theory proposal by nineteenth-century anthropology that all culture natural evolve through the. Same sequence from simple to complex. |
| Historical particularism | The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in specific ways because of their unique histories. |
| Society | The focus of early British anthropology and function could be isolated and studied scientifically. |
| Structural functionalism; | A conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium. |
| Interpretivist approach | A conceptual framework that see culture primary as a symbol system of deep meanin |
| Thick decription | A research strategy that combines detailed description of cultural activity with an analysis of the layers of deep Cultural meaning in which those those activities are embedd. |
| Power | The ability or potential to bring about through action or influence |
| .hegemony | The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force |
| Agency | The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, mental maps of reality, symbols, institutions, and structures of power. |
| Epigenetics | An area of study in the field of genetics exploring ways environmental factors directly affect the expression of genes in ways that may be inherited between generations. |
| Human microbiome | The complete collection of microorganisms in the human body's ecosystem |
| How culture is created | Culture dies not emerge out of the blue. It is created over time, shape by people and the instructions they establish in relationship to the environment around them. |
| Culture is learned and taught | Humans do not genetically inherit culture. We learn culture throughout the lives from the people and cultural institutions that surround us. |
| Connecting Culture and Behavior | While direct links between specific genes and behavior have proven difficult to identify, we have much clearer indications of the ways cultural patterns and belief shape human behavior. |
| stratification | The uneven distribution of resources and privileges among participants in a group or culture. |
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