ANTH100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Theodosius Dobzhansky, James Ussher, James Hutton

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Robert Park

Document Summary

All anthropologists have the same belief importance of culture. ): argued that the differences weren"t random governed by culture: focused on belief and behaviour; not through instinct/heredity but from being in a particular society and being exposed to a specific cultural tradition. A shared way of life that includes tech, values, beliefs and norms transmitted within a particular society from gen to gen shared nature. The acquired know that ppl use to interpret their world and generate social behaviour. Sets of learned behaviour and ideas that human beings use both to pursue their interests and to identify the interests that they ought to pursue learned nature. Culture can be general and it can be specific. Culture is learned: enculturation: ongoing process of learning. Culture is symbolic: verbal or non-verbal, comes to stand for something else. Arbitrary connection: language is the most distinctive symbol of human species, dog/chien.