LIBERTY UNIVERSITY GLST 290 EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
MUST KNOW"The truth is that cultural anthropology is the - ANS description, interpretation,
and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures"
The primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologist is - ANS ethnography
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) - ANS Sexuality
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
Franz Boas* (1858-1942) - ANS Theory of relativism
Race, Language and Culture (1940)
The 'ethnic fair' - ANS assumptions about cultures as neatly bounded and highly
homogeneous entities simply didn't withstand scrutiny"
These first anthropologists are now often called ______________ for their gathering of data
from travelogues and books rather than from their own direct research - ANS armchair
anthropologists
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, Building on the biological theories of evolution advanced by _____________ these scholars
assumed all societies moved from simple to complex forms in progressive evolutionary stages. -
ANS Charles Darwin
The theory of _______________ supports "cultural superiority, the idea that people of one
culture are more enlightened, advanced, civilized, or intelligent than another and racism, the
belief that humans are organized into race groupings that are different from one another in
intelligence and worth" - ANS unilinear cultural evolution
"This new theory, which would come to be called ____________ argued that each culture is a
unique representation of its history and context. - ANS HISTORICAL PARTICULARISM
Cultural relativism - ANS is the view that cultural practice and beliefs are best understood in
relation to their entire context. Also is distinct from moral relativism or epistemological
relativism.
Tacit ethnocentrism - ANS is the assumption that one's own way of life is just normal, not
cultural.
MUST KNOW! Culture is the - ANS TOTAL way of life of a group of people that is LEARNED,
ADAPTIVE, SHARED, and INTEGRATED
Language - ANS is a system of VERBAL and NON-VERBAL symbols used to communicate
In the late 18th century, ______________ found the relationship of Sanskrit and classical Greek,
Latin, and modern European languages - ANS Sir William Jones
William Labov's research of - ANS SOCIAL INFLUENCES on language helped to find
sociolinguistics," one that addresses the mutual influences between CULTURE and LANGUAGE,"
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QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
MUST KNOW"The truth is that cultural anthropology is the - ANS description, interpretation,
and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures"
The primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologist is - ANS ethnography
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) - ANS Sexuality
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
Franz Boas* (1858-1942) - ANS Theory of relativism
Race, Language and Culture (1940)
The 'ethnic fair' - ANS assumptions about cultures as neatly bounded and highly
homogeneous entities simply didn't withstand scrutiny"
These first anthropologists are now often called ______________ for their gathering of data
from travelogues and books rather than from their own direct research - ANS armchair
anthropologists
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, Building on the biological theories of evolution advanced by _____________ these scholars
assumed all societies moved from simple to complex forms in progressive evolutionary stages. -
ANS Charles Darwin
The theory of _______________ supports "cultural superiority, the idea that people of one
culture are more enlightened, advanced, civilized, or intelligent than another and racism, the
belief that humans are organized into race groupings that are different from one another in
intelligence and worth" - ANS unilinear cultural evolution
"This new theory, which would come to be called ____________ argued that each culture is a
unique representation of its history and context. - ANS HISTORICAL PARTICULARISM
Cultural relativism - ANS is the view that cultural practice and beliefs are best understood in
relation to their entire context. Also is distinct from moral relativism or epistemological
relativism.
Tacit ethnocentrism - ANS is the assumption that one's own way of life is just normal, not
cultural.
MUST KNOW! Culture is the - ANS TOTAL way of life of a group of people that is LEARNED,
ADAPTIVE, SHARED, and INTEGRATED
Language - ANS is a system of VERBAL and NON-VERBAL symbols used to communicate
In the late 18th century, ______________ found the relationship of Sanskrit and classical Greek,
Latin, and modern European languages - ANS Sir William Jones
William Labov's research of - ANS SOCIAL INFLUENCES on language helped to find
sociolinguistics," one that addresses the mutual influences between CULTURE and LANGUAGE,"
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
