ANTH 1034 Lecture Notes - Enculturation

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Question 2: how do societies distinguish individuals from one another: read robbins (textbook) pages 223 228, worldview (cid:224) an encompassing picture of reality based on a set of shared and learned assumptions about how the world works, cultural constructionism (cid:224) position that says that human behaviour and ideas are best explained as products of culturally shaped learning, biological determinism (cid:224)gives priority to biological features such as people"s genes and hormones to explain behaviours and ideas, arguably, the most important contribution that cultural anthropology can make to the understanding of human nature is revealing, and insisting upon the significance of human culture. Social construct: a concept or practice which may appear to be natural, obvious, common sense, esstential, timeless or even god given but in reality is an invention, or a cultural artefact of a particular culture or society, the result of countless human choices ( not necessarily intended or intentional) rather than the law of nature, e. g.

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