ANTH 411—EXAM 1 | 2026 UPDATE | QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 100% CORRECT
Anthropology Answer - the study of culture, people, and humankind
Culture Answer - the way of life of people, the things they do and make, their
ideas
Characteristics of culture Enculturation Answer - taught
Holism Answer - looks at all the parts of the cultural system and how those
parts are interrelated
Subcultures Answer - subdivision of a national culture that shares some
features with the larger society and also differs in some important respects.no
matter where they are in world , share these universal cultural traits
Universals Answer - societies share common features because they solve
problems shared by all human societies,
i.e. systems of: economics, marriage, family, education, supernatural belief,
communication.
E.B. Tylor Answer - English anthropologist, the founder of cultural
anthropology
,Culture change Answer - when something new opens up new ways of living
and when new ideas enter culture
Globalization Answer - Circulation of goods
o Exchange of ideas
o Movement of people
o Economic, social, cultural, political interconnections..
Transnationalism Answer - back and forth flow between two nations-fluidity of
movement (people, goods, ideas, etc.)
Fives "scapes" of globalization Answer - o Ethnoscape
o Technoscape
o Ideoscape
o Financescape
o Mediascape
Glocalization Answer - a product or service that is developed and distributed
globally, it adjusts to accommodate the consumer in their local market
Syncretism Answer - establishing analogies between two or more discrete or
formerly separate traditions
Hybridity Answer - dissolution of rigid cultural boundaries between groups
perceived as separate
, Cultural Assimilation Answer - Integration or incorporati0on into a new culture
and society
Advantages/Disadvantages of Globalization Answer - Advantages
- Access to new cultures
- Lower cost for products
- Access to new markets
- Spread of innovation/technology
Disadvantages
- Fuels inequality
- Leaves us vulnerable to infectious diseases
- Destroys the environment
Structural violence—and different types/examples Answer - o Systematic- and
systemic - ways a social structure or institution harms people or groups of
people
o Powerful few over weaker many
o Cultural domination
§ Loss of certain ways of life
§ Ex. Dressing or how you collect food
o Environmental exploitation
§ Clear cutting rainforests
§ Forest fires
Consequences of "Progress" Answer - - Disease
o Obesity, diabetes
- Dietary Changes
ANSWERS | 100% CORRECT
Anthropology Answer - the study of culture, people, and humankind
Culture Answer - the way of life of people, the things they do and make, their
ideas
Characteristics of culture Enculturation Answer - taught
Holism Answer - looks at all the parts of the cultural system and how those
parts are interrelated
Subcultures Answer - subdivision of a national culture that shares some
features with the larger society and also differs in some important respects.no
matter where they are in world , share these universal cultural traits
Universals Answer - societies share common features because they solve
problems shared by all human societies,
i.e. systems of: economics, marriage, family, education, supernatural belief,
communication.
E.B. Tylor Answer - English anthropologist, the founder of cultural
anthropology
,Culture change Answer - when something new opens up new ways of living
and when new ideas enter culture
Globalization Answer - Circulation of goods
o Exchange of ideas
o Movement of people
o Economic, social, cultural, political interconnections..
Transnationalism Answer - back and forth flow between two nations-fluidity of
movement (people, goods, ideas, etc.)
Fives "scapes" of globalization Answer - o Ethnoscape
o Technoscape
o Ideoscape
o Financescape
o Mediascape
Glocalization Answer - a product or service that is developed and distributed
globally, it adjusts to accommodate the consumer in their local market
Syncretism Answer - establishing analogies between two or more discrete or
formerly separate traditions
Hybridity Answer - dissolution of rigid cultural boundaries between groups
perceived as separate
, Cultural Assimilation Answer - Integration or incorporati0on into a new culture
and society
Advantages/Disadvantages of Globalization Answer - Advantages
- Access to new cultures
- Lower cost for products
- Access to new markets
- Spread of innovation/technology
Disadvantages
- Fuels inequality
- Leaves us vulnerable to infectious diseases
- Destroys the environment
Structural violence—and different types/examples Answer - o Systematic- and
systemic - ways a social structure or institution harms people or groups of
people
o Powerful few over weaker many
o Cultural domination
§ Loss of certain ways of life
§ Ex. Dressing or how you collect food
o Environmental exploitation
§ Clear cutting rainforests
§ Forest fires
Consequences of "Progress" Answer - - Disease
o Obesity, diabetes
- Dietary Changes
