ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Moral Relativism, Enculturation, Cultural Relativism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

Deborah tannen: sociolinguist, studies speech patterns between men and women, studies recorded conversations. Very large field of study with many specializations. Distinction from sociology: both are separate but share roots and formed at the same time. Key terms: participant observation, go and stay with the people you are studying for an extended period of time. Informants: people you speak to, ethnography, what you write afterwards, ethnology, comparison. Central marker of what it means to be human. Tylor and the definition of culture: earliest definition, complex whole which includes, customs, laws, morals . acquired by man , textbook defines culture pretty similar (look up) Lecture 18: humans depend on culture for survival. Socialization: learning how to live as a member of the group, how to cope with rules of interaction. Enculturation: coming to terms with appropriate ways of thinking and feeling in the culture, some is directly told explicitly some is just absorbed. Adaptive: old people saying be lady-like .