GICE 290 Final Review Question and
answers already passed 2025/2026
10 Building Blocks of Culture - correct answer ✔God's unchanging truth, culture, language and
communication, social structure, sex, gender, and sexuality, subsistence strategy and exchange, politics
and power, kinship, marriage, and family, religion and ritual, and globalization.
Franz Boas Quote: - correct answer ✔"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic,
and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
The truth that is cultural anthropology is the _____, _____, and _____ of similarities and differences in
human cultures - correct answer ✔description and analysis
4 subfields of anthropology: - correct answer ✔archeology, cultural/social, physical/biological,
linguistics (applied anthropology could be a 5th category)
what is ethnography? - correct answer ✔The use of one's own culture to measure another's, putting
first one's own culture
how do anthropology and sociology differ? - correct answer ✔anthropology: focused on other
sociology: focused on society
the theory of unilinear cultural evolution - correct answer ✔"An Early anthropological theory that
states all
cultures evolve from simple to complex, along
the single trajectory of progress
, Paul Hiebert defined culture as. . . - correct answer ✔the integrated system of learned patterns of
behavior, ideas, and products characteristic of a society
what did the "natural history of a kiss" teach? - correct answer ✔that a kiss is not a universal practice
3 ways to study linguistics: - correct answer ✔historical, descriptive, and sociolinguistics
language is a system of ____ and ____ symbols used to communicate - correct answer ✔verbal and
non verbal
there is no ____ language for Christians; no language more ____ or ____ for scripture or than any other
- correct answer ✔sacred, suitable, appropriate
phonetics - correct answer ✔speech sounds
syntax - correct answer ✔phrases and sentences
semantics - correct answer ✔literal meaning of phrases and sentences
pragmatics - correct answer ✔meaning in context and discourse
Eugene Nida's argument - correct answer ✔that humans have similar human reasoning, similar human
experience, and similar symbolic framework (wrote the good news bible)
____ ____ (also called social organization or social order) refers to the way people ____ their lives in
relation to one another at the level of society - correct answer ✔social structure, coordinate
answers already passed 2025/2026
10 Building Blocks of Culture - correct answer ✔God's unchanging truth, culture, language and
communication, social structure, sex, gender, and sexuality, subsistence strategy and exchange, politics
and power, kinship, marriage, and family, religion and ritual, and globalization.
Franz Boas Quote: - correct answer ✔"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic,
and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
The truth that is cultural anthropology is the _____, _____, and _____ of similarities and differences in
human cultures - correct answer ✔description and analysis
4 subfields of anthropology: - correct answer ✔archeology, cultural/social, physical/biological,
linguistics (applied anthropology could be a 5th category)
what is ethnography? - correct answer ✔The use of one's own culture to measure another's, putting
first one's own culture
how do anthropology and sociology differ? - correct answer ✔anthropology: focused on other
sociology: focused on society
the theory of unilinear cultural evolution - correct answer ✔"An Early anthropological theory that
states all
cultures evolve from simple to complex, along
the single trajectory of progress
, Paul Hiebert defined culture as. . . - correct answer ✔the integrated system of learned patterns of
behavior, ideas, and products characteristic of a society
what did the "natural history of a kiss" teach? - correct answer ✔that a kiss is not a universal practice
3 ways to study linguistics: - correct answer ✔historical, descriptive, and sociolinguistics
language is a system of ____ and ____ symbols used to communicate - correct answer ✔verbal and
non verbal
there is no ____ language for Christians; no language more ____ or ____ for scripture or than any other
- correct answer ✔sacred, suitable, appropriate
phonetics - correct answer ✔speech sounds
syntax - correct answer ✔phrases and sentences
semantics - correct answer ✔literal meaning of phrases and sentences
pragmatics - correct answer ✔meaning in context and discourse
Eugene Nida's argument - correct answer ✔that humans have similar human reasoning, similar human
experience, and similar symbolic framework (wrote the good news bible)
____ ____ (also called social organization or social order) refers to the way people ____ their lives in
relation to one another at the level of society - correct answer ✔social structure, coordinate
