Unit One: Introduction to IB-SACA Inquiry
Specific Concepts Study Guide with
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Acculturation - Answer✔️✔️-Cultural change related to contact with another
culture.
Agency - Answer✔️✔️-This is the capacity of human beings to act in
meaningful ways that affect their own lives and those of others. This may
be constrained by class, gender, religion and social and cultural factors.
This term implies that individuals have the capacity to create, change and
influence events. Anthropological research that emphasizes this and
focuses on humans acting to promote their interests and the interests of the
groups to which they belong (although what constitutes "interest" may be
subject to debate).
Authority - Answer✔️✔️-Power is exercised with the consent of others.
Communication - Answer✔️✔️-Language influences social life, forms social
identity and group membership, organizes large-scale cultural beliefs and
ideologies, and develops a common cultural representation of natural and
social worlds.
Conflict - Answer✔️✔️-Disagreements between individuals, groups, cultures
or societies may result from differences in interests, values or actions. This
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theory presents a lens, or framework, which can give anthropologists
insight into the social impact of disharmony.
Cultural Relativism - Answer✔️✔️-Not making value judgments about
cultural differences; understanding a different culture in its context.
Diaspora - Answer✔️✔️-The dispersal of peoples from homelands to
establish new, migrated communities in other places.
Enculturation - Answer✔️✔️-The gradual acquisition of the characteristics
and norms of a culture or group. The transmission of culture from one
generation to the next.
Ethnicity - Answer✔️✔️-A social group is connected by a shared
understanding of cultural identity.
Ethnocentrism - Answer✔️✔️-The tendency to view the world only from the
perspective of one's own culture; the inability to understand cultures
different from one's own.
Exclusion - Answer✔️✔️-The failure of society to provide certain individuals
and groups with those rights and benefits normally available to its
members.
Gender - Answer✔️✔️-The culturally constructed distinctions between males
and females.
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