ANTH 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Anthropology, Incest, Hypoplasia
22 Sep 2015
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Anthropology: study of human diversity: combines humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Living in a culture that is not your own while also keeping a detailed record of your observations and interviews: ethnology vs ethnography, armchair anthropology. Oversimplifies connections among cultures or misinterprets events. Applied anthropology: applying anthropological knowledge and techniques to solving of practical real world problems. Anthropology vs. sociology: anthropology focused on non-western people and emphasizes qualitative research, sociology focused on western peoples and less powerful minority groups, emphasizes quantitative research. The office: diversity day: how not to go about the study of human diversity, stereotypes. Culture vs culture: big c: upper class, wasp. Characteristics of culture: necessary: enables us to live with other people, conservative and always changing: some aspects change rapidly, other. Acculturation: culture change resulting from contact between cultures. Ethnocentrism: the belief that one"s own culture"s way of doing something is the right, natural, or universal way.
