Exam 1

A  variable

B  sample

C  formal questionnaire

D  random sample

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  ethnocentrist

B  moral relativist

C  materialist

D  idealist

A  Men and women do different productive tasks.

B  There are no differences in social class.

C  Most resources are common goods.

D  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

A  we strive for cultural relativism

B  culture is learned

C  culture is symbolic

D  culture is shared

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  The AAA code of ethics anthropologists are bound to.

B  Anthropologists doing no harm to the peoples they study.

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

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

A  en etic research approach

B  an emic research approach

C  quantitative methodology

D  ethnology

A  ethnology

B  longitudinal research

C  multi-sited ethnography

D  reflective ethnogrraphy

A  the structure of academia

B  indirect diffusion

C  her agency

D  cultural relativism

A  functionalism

B  structural-functionalism

C  processual archaeology

D  homeostasis

A  an irrational mystification of cows

B  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

C  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

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

A  an inverse relationship

B  a coorelation

C  the empirical method

D  a causal relationship

A  a randon sample

B  a formal question

C  an informal question

D  participant observation

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

B  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

C  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

D  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

A  a monotheistic

B  an animistic

C  an agnostic

D  a nostical

A  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

B  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

C  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

D  causal relationships; coorelations

A  acculturation

B  indirect diffusion

C  enculturation

D  independent invention

A  community leader

B  key informant

C  gatekeeper

D  shaman

A  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

B  Cross-cultural study & holism.

C  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

D  Diffusion & enculturation.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  cultural means of adaptation to the natural environment

B  sex

C  hierarchies of dominance

D  biological means of adaptation to the natural environment

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

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

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

D  requires all anthropologists to pay informants when receiving federal funding

A  The comparitive perspective

B  Holism

C  Anthropos

D  Psychic unity of humankind

A  acculturation

B  diffusion

C  enculturation

D  cultural relativism

A  delusion

B  religion

C  idealism

D  materialism

A  applied ethics

B  just compensationi

C  narrative justification

D  multiple truths

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

B  Beginning a research project involving humans.

C  Submitting a research proposal.

D  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

A  Symbolism

B  Subculture

C  Integration

D  Enculturation

A  ethnology

B  longitudinal research

C  genealogy

D  ethnography

A  androcentric

B  gender equality

C  gender

D  sexuality

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

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

C  Cultural relativism means that there are not cultural universals.

D  Cultural relativism means you cannot compare cultures.

A  linguistic anthropology

B  cultural anthropology

C  archeology

D  applied anthropology

A  undeveloped

B  primative peoples

C  peasants

D  Caucasians

A  a hypothesis

B  a variable

C  a statistic

D  an observation

A  a relativistic

B  an emic

C  an etic

D  an idealist

A  Cultural relativism.

B  A hypothesis.

C  The emperical method.

D  The scientific method.

A  acculturation

B  ethnocentrism

C  cultural relativism

D  enculturation