Understanding Cultural Dynamics: Key Concepts in Anthropology

Question 1 (1 point) Saved Question 2 (1 point) Question 3 (1 point) What is the term for processes that are causing nations and people to be increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent? What kinds of people do anthropologists consider to be "cultured"? Acculturation Diffusion Globalization Enculturation Independent invention Educated people Key cultural consultants Ethnocentric people Culturally sensitive people All people

Question 4 (1 point) Question 5 (1 point) What term refers to the different symbol-based patterns and traditions associated with particular groups within the same complex society? Although rap music began in North America, it is now popular all over the world. Which of the following mechanisms of cultural change is responsible for this? Although culture is one of the principal means by which humans adapt to their environment, some cultural traits may threaten a group's survival. Subcultures Globalization Diffusion Hypodescent Pidgins Acculturation Enculturation Independent invention Colonization Diffusion True False

Question 6 (1 point) Question 7 (1 point) Question 8 (1 point) Question 9 (1 point) Diffusion plays an important role in spreading cultural traits around the world. What are cultural particulars? Acculturation is the process by which people lose the cultures that they learned as children. True False Features of a culture that are isolated from other features in the same culture Features unique to a given culture, not shared with any others Different levels of culture The most general aspect of culture patterns Cultural features exhibited by individuals rather than groups True False

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Question 10 (1 point) Question 11 (1 point) Question 12 (1 point) Cultural generalities may arise through independent invention, when people in different societies devise similar solutions to comparable problems or challenges. The Internet has hindered the process of globalization. What is cultural relativism? Which of the following is a cultural generality? True False True False A cultural universal, based upon the human capacity to use symbols The argument that behaviour in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture A cultural particular, based upon the interrelatedness of humans The opposite of participant observation The same thing as ethnocentrism, but it applies only to family structures

Question 13 (1 point) Question 14 (1 point) Question 15 (1 point) Culture is transmitted in society. Culture is both public and individual, both in the world and in people's minds. The process by which children learn culture is known as Life in groups The use of fire Incest taboo Use of symbols Nuclear family True False True False

Question 16 (1 point) Question 17 (1 point) Which of the following statements about cultural relativism is not true? According to the article on Culture, culture is transmitted genetically. acculturation. cultural transmission. enculturation. ethnoabsorption. diffusion. Cultural relativism argues that cultural values vary between cultures. Cultural relativism argues that some cultures are relatively better than others. Cultural relativism argues that we shouldn't use our own standards to judge conduct in other cultures. Cultural relativism argues that no one culture is better than any other. Cultural relativism argues that each culture is a unique, integrated whole. True False

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Question 18 (1 point) Question 19 (1 point) Question 20 (1 point) What is the term for a sign that has no necessary or natural connection to the thing it stands for or signifies? Although there are many different levels of culture, an individual can participate in only one level at a time. Cultural relativists believe that a culture should be judged only according to the standards and traditions of that culture and not according to standards of other cultural traditions. Morpheme Lexicon Phoneme Symbol Collateral True False

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