CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Enculturation
Answer: The process of learning culture.
●● Norms
Answer: Ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular
situations or toward certain other people.
●● Values
Answer: Fundamental beliefs about what is important, what makes a
good life, and what is true, right, and beautiful.
●● Symbol
Answer: Anything that represents something else.
●● Mental maps of reality
Answer: Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things
exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications.
, ●● Cultural relativism
Answer: Understanding a group's beliefs and practices within their own
cultural context, without making judgments.
●● Cultural appropriation
Answer: The unwanted taking of cultural practices or knowledge from
one group by another, more dominant group.
●● Unilineal cultural evolution
Answer: The theory proposed by nineteenth-century anthropologists that
all cultures naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from
simple to complex.
●● Historical particularism
Answer: The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in
specific ways because of their unique histories.
●● Society
Answer: The focus of early British anthropological research whose
structure and function could be isolated and studied scientifically.
●● Structural functionalism
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Enculturation
Answer: The process of learning culture.
●● Norms
Answer: Ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular
situations or toward certain other people.
●● Values
Answer: Fundamental beliefs about what is important, what makes a
good life, and what is true, right, and beautiful.
●● Symbol
Answer: Anything that represents something else.
●● Mental maps of reality
Answer: Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things
exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications.
, ●● Cultural relativism
Answer: Understanding a group's beliefs and practices within their own
cultural context, without making judgments.
●● Cultural appropriation
Answer: The unwanted taking of cultural practices or knowledge from
one group by another, more dominant group.
●● Unilineal cultural evolution
Answer: The theory proposed by nineteenth-century anthropologists that
all cultures naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from
simple to complex.
●● Historical particularism
Answer: The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in
specific ways because of their unique histories.
●● Society
Answer: The focus of early British anthropological research whose
structure and function could be isolated and studied scientifically.
●● Structural functionalism
