Exam 1

A  variable

B  sample

C  random sample

D  formal questionnaire

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

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

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  ethnocentrist

B  idealist

C  materialist

D  moral relativist

A  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

B  Most resources are common goods.

C  Men and women do different productive tasks.

D  There are no differences in social class.

A  culture is shared

B  culture is symbolic

C  culture is learned

D  we strive for cultural relativism

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

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

B  The AAA code of ethics anthropologists are bound to.

C  Anthropologists doing no harm to the peoples they study.

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

A  en etic research approach

B  an emic research approach

C  ethnology

D  quantitative methodology

A  reflective ethnogrraphy

B  longitudinal research

C  multi-sited ethnography

D  ethnology

A  the structure of academia

B  indirect diffusion

C  her agency

D  cultural relativism

A  processual archaeology

B  functionalism

C  homeostasis

D  structural-functionalism

A  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

B  an irrational mystification of cows

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

D  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

A  a coorelation

B  a causal relationship

C  an inverse relationship

D  the empirical method

A  a formal question

B  a randon sample

C  an informal question

D  participant observation

A  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

B  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

C  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

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

A  an agnostic

B  an animistic

C  a monotheistic

D  a nostical

A  causal relationships; coorelations

B  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

C  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

D  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

A  independent invention

B  acculturation

C  enculturation

D  indirect diffusion

A  community leader

B  key informant

C  gatekeeper

D  shaman

A  Diffusion & enculturation.

B  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

C  Cross-cultural study & holism.

D  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  cultural means of adaptation to the natural environment

B  biological means of adaptation to the natural environment

C  sex

D  hierarchies of dominance

A  requires all anthropologists to pay informants when receiving federal funding

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

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

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

A  Anthropos

B  Psychic unity of humankind

C  The comparitive perspective

D  Holism

A  diffusion

B  acculturation

C  enculturation

D  cultural relativism

A  materialism

B  religion

C  idealism

D  delusion

A  multiple truths

B  narrative justification

C  applied ethics

D  just compensationi

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

B  Beginning a research project involving humans.

C  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

D  Submitting a research proposal.

A  Symbolism

B  Integration

C  Enculturation

D  Subculture

A  genealogy

B  ethnography

C  longitudinal research

D  ethnology

A  androcentric

B  gender equality

C  sexuality

D  gender

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  applied anthropology

B  cultural anthropology

C  archeology

D  linguistic anthropology

A  Caucasians

B  undeveloped

C  primative peoples

D  peasants

A  a variable

B  a statistic

C  a hypothesis

D  an observation

A  an idealist

B  a relativistic

C  an emic

D  an etic

A  The scientific method.

B  The emperical method.

C  Cultural relativism.

D  A hypothesis.

A  enculturation

B  acculturation

C  ethnocentrism

D  cultural relativism