ANTH 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Margaret Mead, Participant Observation, Thick Description
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Dualism: mind-body dichotomy creates people"s reality idealism: mind over body the ideas people have creates people"s. Reality materialism: material activities people engage in create their reality . Culture is shared people within their own culture share ideas+images that are meaningful. A permissible range of alternative ideas are also shared. Everyone understands the central ideas and meanings asssociaated with specific activites: c. learned one learns how to pertate and get by within ones own culture. Over time one learns the rules and the consequences if one does not follow the rules: patterned with your own culture certain patterns of others are obvious to you and your patterns are obvious to others. These have meaning to you and other members of your own culture. Patterns tell you what is going to happen next offer consistency: integrative- specific aspects in one"s culture hold the culture together, always changes- changes may be material changes, activities, or ideas.
