Karteikarten
Anthropology—Origins of Anthro
Karten in diesem Stapel (20)
- 1Ancient Greeks and RomansThought people were shaped by culture and that there are different cultures
- 2EthnocentrismPutting the reality of your own society as a lens to view others with
- 3Dark AgesA discouragement of diversity
- 4Natural SelectionMore organisms are born than survive
Leads to biological change
Reproducing animals have adapted and are better at it - 5SpencerismSociety is constantly evolving
- 6Social DarwinismSurvival of the fittest
Evolution of man
It is a competition between individuals and societies - 7MarxismRevolution of the tension between classes of societies
- 819th CenturyThreatened change against the status quo
- 9Franz BoasCreated his own school of thought an followers and believed that cultures were different for everyone but individuals could learn the same things
- 10Unilineal EvolutionHuman ways all pass through the same stages
- 11HistoricismEmphasizing the belief that culture is a product of its history
- 12ConfigurationalismThe idea that each culture develops its own patterns for things
- 13FunctionalismOrganizes cultural elements in terms of their useful effects
- 14PostmodernistsAre people who believe in relativity of all knowledge
- 15Interpretive AnthropologistsAnalyze cultural elements by looking at the importance of their meaning to the people of that culture
- 16Humanistic ApproachLooks at understanding culture instead of analyzing the similarities and differences
- 17MaterialismTechnology, environment and resources influencing cultural differences
- 18Scientific ApproachSuggests similarities and differences in culture can be explained by science
- 19SociobiologyThe belief that humans have the same evolutionary forces as other animals affecting them
- 20NeoevolutionismThe new evolution approach to studying and explaining culture
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- Chapter five of the textbook
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- Natasha Gidluck
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