IB-SACA Theories Study Guide Test.
Marxism - CORRECT ANSWER This focuses on the ways material factors cause social transformation.
This includes studying the forces of production and their relationship to social organization. The idea is
that economic relationships are based on power, and ultimately lead to class struggle.
Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER This highlights the importance of gender as an analytic concept and the
importance of including women's presence in cultural analysis. This theory was the first theory that
emphasized the importance of recognizing power and privilege not only within the society being
studied, but also between the anthropologist, the subject, and the reader.
Social and Cultural - CORRECT ANSWER This studies the diversity of human societies in time and space,
while looking for commonalities across them. It uses a holistic strategy—linking local and global, past
and present—to offer various approaches to understanding contemporary challenges.
Culture and Personality - CORRECT ANSWER This theory emphasizes the cultural molding of the
personality and focuses on the development of the individual. These theorists argued that personality
types were created in socialization, and they placed particular emphasis on child-rearing practices such
as feeding, weaning, and toilet training
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER This paradigm in anthropology suggests that the structure of human
thought processes is the same in all cultures, and that these mental processes exist in the form of binary
oppositions. Some of these oppositions include hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, and raw-cooked.
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER This is the theory that focuses on interdependence in institutions
and their behavior patterns to maintain their survival and social system. In addition, this entails how
individuals function in their daily operations to uplift themselves and society.
Marxism - CORRECT ANSWER This focuses on the ways material factors cause social transformation.
This includes studying the forces of production and their relationship to social organization. The idea is
that economic relationships are based on power, and ultimately lead to class struggle.
Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER This highlights the importance of gender as an analytic concept and the
importance of including women's presence in cultural analysis. This theory was the first theory that
emphasized the importance of recognizing power and privilege not only within the society being
studied, but also between the anthropologist, the subject, and the reader.
Social and Cultural - CORRECT ANSWER This studies the diversity of human societies in time and space,
while looking for commonalities across them. It uses a holistic strategy—linking local and global, past
and present—to offer various approaches to understanding contemporary challenges.
Culture and Personality - CORRECT ANSWER This theory emphasizes the cultural molding of the
personality and focuses on the development of the individual. These theorists argued that personality
types were created in socialization, and they placed particular emphasis on child-rearing practices such
as feeding, weaning, and toilet training
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER This paradigm in anthropology suggests that the structure of human
thought processes is the same in all cultures, and that these mental processes exist in the form of binary
oppositions. Some of these oppositions include hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, and raw-cooked.
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER This is the theory that focuses on interdependence in institutions
and their behavior patterns to maintain their survival and social system. In addition, this entails how
individuals function in their daily operations to uplift themselves and society.
