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

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

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

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  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  idealist

B  materialist

C  moral relativist

D  ethnocentrist

A  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

B  There are no differences in social class.

C  Most resources are common goods.

D  Men and women do different productive tasks.

A  culture is symbolic

B  culture is learned

C  culture is shared

D  we strive for cultural relativism

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Anthropologists doing no harm to the peoples they study.

B  The AAA code of ethics anthropologists are bound to.

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  ethnology

B  an emic research approach

C  quantitative methodology

D  en etic research approach

A  longitudinal research

B  multi-sited ethnography

C  ethnology

D  reflective ethnogrraphy

A  the structure of academia

B  indirect diffusion

C  her agency

D  cultural relativism

A  processual archaeology

B  homeostasis

C  functionalism

D  structural-functionalism

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

B  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

C  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

D  an irrational mystification of cows

A  a coorelation

B  a causal relationship

C  the empirical method

D  an inverse relationship

A  an informal question

B  a randon sample

C  participant observation

D  a formal question

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

B  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

C  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

D  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

A  an animistic

B  a monotheistic

C  an agnostic

D  a nostical

A  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

B  causal relationships; coorelations

C  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

D  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

A  acculturation

B  independent invention

C  enculturation

D  indirect diffusion

A  key informant

B  gatekeeper

C  community leader

D  shaman

A  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

B  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

C  Cross-cultural study & holism.

D  Diffusion & enculturation.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  sex

B  hierarchies of dominance

C  cultural means of adaptation to the natural environment

D  biological means of adaptation to the natural environment

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

B  requires all anthropologists to pay informants when receiving federal funding

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

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

A  The comparitive perspective

B  Psychic unity of humankind

C  Anthropos

D  Holism

A  acculturation

B  enculturation

C  cultural relativism

D  diffusion

A  delusion

B  idealism

C  religion

D  materialism

A  applied ethics

B  just compensationi

C  narrative justification

D  multiple truths

A  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

B  Submitting a research proposal.

C  Beginning a research project involving humans.

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

A  Symbolism

B  Integration

C  Enculturation

D  Subculture

A  genealogy

B  longitudinal research

C  ethnology

D  ethnography

A  androcentric

B  gender

C  gender equality

D  sexuality

A  Cultural relativism means you cannot compare cultures.

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

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

D  Cultural relativism means that there are not cultural universals.

A  linguistic anthropology

B  applied anthropology

C  archeology

D  cultural anthropology

A  peasants

B  undeveloped

C  primative peoples

D  Caucasians

A  a statistic

B  a hypothesis

C  an observation

D  a variable

A  an idealist

B  an etic

C  an emic

D  a relativistic

A  The emperical method.

B  A hypothesis.

C  Cultural relativism.

D  The scientific method.

A  enculturation

B  cultural relativism

C  acculturation

D  ethnocentrism