AT&T FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Nomothetic - Answer appraoch geared toward producing generalizations or scientific laws. (Contrasts with ideographic). Positivism - Answer doctrine that scientific knowledge pertainsonly to empirical experience and is built up through the generation of propositional knowledge. Materialism - Answer the philosophical perspective based upon a material ontology in which casuality is attributed to the physical properties of things, whether molecules, bacteria, brains or cultures. It is associated with the view that all things can be explained in terms of their material attributes. Skepticism - Answer fundamental principle of modern science where any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief Replicability - Answer the scientific requirement that results must be tested by different researchers in order to establish the validity of propositions. Deduction - Answer logical reasoning from the general to the particular, or reasoning which starts with a proposition and stipulates the consequences that follow from that proposition. Induction - Answer inference of propositions on the basis of specific observations Theory - Answer -a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something -a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based -an idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action - A set of hypotheses that have not been refuted and have explanatory value Hypothesis - Answer a testable propositon about a set of expectations derived from a theory that should be found in a real world if the theory is valid Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer "Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities" Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer "configurations of culture growth" Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer "Psychology is what is not culture" Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer "Psychological reductionism cannot explain ethnographic facts" Alfred l. Kroeber Fieldwork Sites - Answer California Indians, New Mexico, Peru, Mexico, India, Southeast Asia Bohannon and Glazer (Quote) - Answer "Individual genius is part of a cultrual er aand not an independent agent" Bohannon and Glazer (Quote) - Answer "societies frequently develop cultural configurations 'spasmodically' when cultural patterns develop, geniuses cluster within certain periods in relationship to cultural growth" Franz Boas (Quote) - Answer "In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the saem biological, geographical and social environment, and as determined by their past" Franz Boas (Quote) - Answer "furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the infuence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."