ANTH 1003 Study Guide - Final Guide: Enculturation, World-Systems Theory, Human Genetic Variation
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Anth 1003 final exam study guide: define culture and know the characteristics of culture. : sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society: culture, characteristics of culture, made up of learned behaviors. Almost every aspect of our lives is layered with learning. We learn continuously and throughout life, but it is concentrated in our childhoods. We learn through enculturation: the process of learning to be a member of a specific. Culture and personality theorists focused on child rearing as the way to best study cultural group enculturation. Classification systems: creation of shared mental models applied to perceptions and experiences in order, ethnoscience to organize, classify, and understand ways that members of a society use language to classify and organize their cognitive world, for example: : theoretical perspective that focuses on recording and examining: study of color classification systems, ethnobotany: study of plant classification systems, ethnozoology: study of animal classification systems.