Exam 1

A  random sample

B  variable

C  formal questionnaire

D  sample

A  All human groups have narratives of how humans were created.

B  All peoples in a given region of the world believe in similar creation myths.

C  Many people who live along the Pacific Coast of Southern California are surfers, while many people who live in Montreal, Canada are hockey players.

D  All humans believe the universe is separate from the human world.

A  Ethnography focuses on large societies stratified by class while ethnology studies small societies with little difference in wealth or power.

B  Ethnology focuses on the study of a particular cultural group, while ethnography emphasizes a comparative perspective on culture.

C  Ethnography studies cultures that are isolated from one another, while ethnology studies nations influenced by globalization.

D  Ethnologists interpret data from different cultural groups to make generalizations about human society and culture.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  idealist

B  materialist

C  ethnocentrist

D  moral relativist

A  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

B  Men and women do different productive tasks.

C  There are no differences in social class.

D  Most resources are common goods.

A  culture is learned

B  culture is shared

C  we strive for cultural relativism

D  culture is symbolic

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  The AAA code of ethics anthropologists are bound to.

B  If the anthropologist or a local person has the right to narrate a story.

C  The idea of truth and falsehood in a given narrative.

D  Anthropologists doing no harm to the peoples they study.

A  ethnology

B  an emic research approach

C  quantitative methodology

D  en etic research approach

A  ethnology

B  reflective ethnogrraphy

C  multi-sited ethnography

D  longitudinal research

A  her agency

B  the structure of academia

C  cultural relativism

D  indirect diffusion

A  functionalism

B  homeostasis

C  processual archaeology

D  structural-functionalism

A  the benefits that cows provide to humans in labor and as a source of milk

B  an irrational mystification of cows

C  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

D  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

A  a causal relationship

B  an inverse relationship

C  a coorelation

D  the empirical method

A  participant observation

B  a randon sample

C  an informal question

D  a formal question

A  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

B  of the desire to work in a university and not in the military

C  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

D  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

A  an agnostic

B  a nostical

C  an animistic

D  a monotheistic

A  causal relationships; coorelations

B  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

C  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

D  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

A  independent invention

B  enculturation

C  acculturation

D  indirect diffusion

A  shaman

B  gatekeeper

C  community leader

D  key informant

A  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

B  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

C  Diffusion & enculturation.

D  Cross-cultural study & holism.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  biological means of adaptation to the natural environment

B  cultural means of adaptation to the natural environment

C  hierarchies of dominance

D  sex

A  requires all anthropologists to pay informants when receiving federal funding

B  states that anthropologists should be advocates for the peoples they study

C  is a set of guidelines for proper conduct by anthropologist working during fieldwork, in the research laboratory, or in the classroom

D  is a binding legal document for anthropologists researching, scholarly, and teaching endeavors

A  Holism

B  The comparitive perspective

C  Anthropos

D  Psychic unity of humankind

A  enculturation

B  acculturation

C  cultural relativism

D  diffusion

A  materialism

B  idealism

C  religion

D  delusion

A  multiple truths

B  applied ethics

C  just compensationi

D  narrative justification

A  Beginning a research project involving humans.

B  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

C  Publishing their research results in a peer-reviewed journal.

D  Submitting a research proposal.

A  Integration

B  Subculture

C  Symbolism

D  Enculturation

A  genealogy

B  longitudinal research

C  ethnography

D  ethnology

A  gender

B  gender equality

C  androcentric

D  sexuality

A  Cultural relativism means that anything a particular cutlure believes is ture.

B  Cultural relativism means you cannot compare cultures.

C  Cultural relativism means that there are multiple standards of behavior.

D  Cultural relativism means that there are not cultural universals.

A  archeology

B  cultural anthropology

C  linguistic anthropology

D  applied anthropology

A  peasants

B  Caucasians

C  primative peoples

D  undeveloped

A  a statistic

B  a hypothesis

C  an observation

D  a variable

A  a relativistic

B  an etic

C  an emic

D  an idealist

A  A hypothesis.

B  The scientific method.

C  The emperical method.

D  Cultural relativism.

A  enculturation

B  cultural relativism

C  ethnocentrism

D  acculturation