Exam 1

A  variable

B  sample

C  formal questionnaire

D  random sample

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

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  All human groups have narratives of how humans were created.

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  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  moral relativist

B  ethnocentrist

C  materialist

D  idealist

A  Men and women do different productive tasks.

B  Most resources are common goods.

C  There are no differences in social class.

D  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

A  culture is learned

B  culture is shared

C  culture is symbolic

D  we strive for cultural relativism

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  en etic research approach

C  quantitative methodology

D  an emic research approach

A  longitudinal research

B  multi-sited ethnography

C  reflective ethnogrraphy

D  ethnology

A  her agency

B  cultural relativism

C  indirect diffusion

D  the structure of academia

A  homeostasis

B  functionalism

C  structural-functionalism

D  processual archaeology

A  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

B  an irrational mystification of cows

C  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

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

A  the empirical method

B  a coorelation

C  an inverse relationship

D  a causal relationship

A  participant observation

B  an informal question

C  a randon sample

D  a formal question

A  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

B  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

C  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

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

A  a nostical

B  an animistic

C  a monotheistic

D  an agnostic

A  causal relationships; coorelations

B  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

C  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

D  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

A  indirect diffusion

B  independent invention

C  acculturation

D  enculturation

A  community leader

B  key informant

C  gatekeeper

D  shaman

A  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

B  Cross-cultural study & holism.

C  Diffusion & enculturation.

D  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  hierarchies of dominance

B  sex

C  biological means of adaptation to the natural environment

D  cultural means of adaptation to the natural environment

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  Psychic unity of humankind

B  Holism

C  Anthropos

D  The comparitive perspective

A  cultural relativism

B  diffusion

C  enculturation

D  acculturation

A  religion

B  materialism

C  idealism

D  delusion

A  just compensationi

B  narrative justification

C  applied ethics

D  multiple truths

A  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

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

C  Beginning a research project involving humans.

D  Submitting a research proposal.

A  Symbolism

B  Integration

C  Enculturation

D  Subculture

A  ethnology

B  ethnography

C  genealogy

D  longitudinal research

A  androcentric

B  sexuality

C  gender equality

D  gender

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

B  Cultural relativism means that there are not cultural universals.

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

D  Cultural relativism means you cannot compare cultures.

A  archeology

B  linguistic anthropology

C  applied anthropology

D  cultural anthropology

A  primative peoples

B  undeveloped

C  peasants

D  Caucasians

A  a hypothesis

B  a statistic

C  a variable

D  an observation

A  an idealist

B  an etic

C  a relativistic

D  an emic

A  A hypothesis.

B  The emperical method.

C  The scientific method.

D  Cultural relativism.

A  acculturation

B  ethnocentrism

C  enculturation

D  cultural relativism