ANTH 411 Exam 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Antropology - ANS the study of man, humans, and culture
Culture - ANS a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, that are learned
and shared by a group of people
characteristics of culture - ANS Learned, shared, symbolic, integrated, dynamic
universals - ANS anything common that exists in every human culture yet varies from culture
to culture
ex: language, values, modes of behavior, taboo, hygiene, food, jobs, etc
E.B Taylor - ANS founder of cultural anthropology
- Stated that culture is a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
custom, and
any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
Culture Change - ANS when the way of society changes and takes on new cultural traits,
behavior patterns, and
social norms
Globalization - ANS Intensification of worldwide social relations that link distant localities in a
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way that such local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa
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, - Movement of people, increases due to technology
Five Scapes of Globalization - ANS 1. Ethnoscape: flow of people across borders
2. Technoscape: flow of technology, production and export
3. Ideoscape: flow of ideas, religion, etc.
4. Financescape: flow of money across borders
5. Mediascape: flow of media (music, art, etc.)
Syncretism - ANS combination of different beliefs when people undergo culture change
Glocalization - ANS adaptation of global ideas into more local form / adaptable
EX: mcdonalds altering their menu in different places
Hybridity - ANS cross between two cultures
Advantages of globalization - ANS access to new cultures, spread of technology, new
markets, new talent, economic growth
Disadvantages of globalization - ANS inequality, long journeys, corruption, eroded cultural
identity, degradation of environment
Structural Violence - ANS - systematic and systemic
ways a social structure or institution harms people or groups of people
Powerful few over weaker majority
Cultural domination - ANS integrate into different economy than they were previously a part
of
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ANSWERS
Antropology - ANS the study of man, humans, and culture
Culture - ANS a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, that are learned
and shared by a group of people
characteristics of culture - ANS Learned, shared, symbolic, integrated, dynamic
universals - ANS anything common that exists in every human culture yet varies from culture
to culture
ex: language, values, modes of behavior, taboo, hygiene, food, jobs, etc
E.B Taylor - ANS founder of cultural anthropology
- Stated that culture is a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
custom, and
any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
Culture Change - ANS when the way of society changes and takes on new cultural traits,
behavior patterns, and
social norms
Globalization - ANS Intensification of worldwide social relations that link distant localities in a
1
Page
way that such local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa
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, - Movement of people, increases due to technology
Five Scapes of Globalization - ANS 1. Ethnoscape: flow of people across borders
2. Technoscape: flow of technology, production and export
3. Ideoscape: flow of ideas, religion, etc.
4. Financescape: flow of money across borders
5. Mediascape: flow of media (music, art, etc.)
Syncretism - ANS combination of different beliefs when people undergo culture change
Glocalization - ANS adaptation of global ideas into more local form / adaptable
EX: mcdonalds altering their menu in different places
Hybridity - ANS cross between two cultures
Advantages of globalization - ANS access to new cultures, spread of technology, new
markets, new talent, economic growth
Disadvantages of globalization - ANS inequality, long journeys, corruption, eroded cultural
identity, degradation of environment
Structural Violence - ANS - systematic and systemic
ways a social structure or institution harms people or groups of people
Powerful few over weaker majority
Cultural domination - ANS integrate into different economy than they were previously a part
of
2
Page
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