Ch. 13 quiz – Flashcards
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Ethnographers typically combine emic and etic research strategies in their fieldwork. This means they are interested in applying both
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local- and scientist-oriented research approaches
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Interpretive anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz approach the study of culture as
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a system of meaning
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Émile Durkheim's focus on social facts illustrates what assumption shared by many anthropologists?
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Psychologists study individuals, but anthropologists study individuals as representative of something more: a collective phenomenon that is more than the sum of its parts.
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Longitudinal research is the long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, or other unit, usually based on repeated visits.
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True
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All of the following are characteristic field techniques of the ethnographer EXCEPT
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longitudinal analysis of data sets gathered from state-sponsored statistical agencies
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In survey research, a sample should
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be constituted so as to allow inferences about the larger population
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The Human Terrain System seeks to embed anthropologists and other social scientists within military teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which of the following is NOT a reason that anthropologists and the AAA Executive Board object to the use of anthropologists in the military?
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Anthropologists, by the nature of their discipline, are not permitted to interact with any military personnel.
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Despite the differences among theoretical paradigms of practitioners as varied as Harris (cultural materialism), White (neoevolutionism), Julian Steward (cultural ecology), and Margaret Mead (configurationalism), all of them have what in common?
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a strong sense of determinism, leaving very little (if any) room for the exercise of individual human agency
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The view that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, has its own distinctive history, and that social forms (such as totemism in different societies) that might look similar are not comparable because of their different histories, is known as
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historical particularism.
