SA 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnography, Matrilocal Residence, Emasculation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Distance Ed

Document Summary

Learning outcomes: define anthropology, anthropology is derived from the greek words for man or humanity and knowledge , to think about society in a comparative and global manner, define and discuss the term objectivity and identify some of the issues raised when invoking the term, any account of an event, an issue, or a group of people is a retelling by a person who has their own values, beliefs, and experiences that influence what they see and how they see it. Identify what makes cultural anthropology unique as a discipline in relation to the other subfields, as well as in relation to other social sciences: hard to characterize the discipline as a science with empirical data or a social science, many believe that it relates to humanities in which data, in the form of observation, interviews or other qualitative approaches are to be interpreted rather than explained, define ethnography, fieldwork, and participant observation, participant observation.