Quiz B Grade A Q&A
What is one key aspect in how we understand the idea of culture? - (correct
answer)Humans learn culture throughout their lives.
Culture as a system includes knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, and artifacts. It
also must include which of the following? - (correct answer)institutions
Sitting in your anthropology class helps you learn about culture through formal
instruction. What informal learning process helps you learn culture from family, friends,
and the media? - (correct answer)enculturation
Anthropologists seek to counter ethnocentrism by: - (correct answer)objectively,
accurately, and sensitively representing the diversity of human life and culture.
In the course of participant observation, anthropologists are often called on to do things
that they might not ordinarily do. What allows them to develop a keen understanding of
beliefs and practices of others as they conduct fieldwork? - (correct answer)cultural
relativism
Which of the following individuals was among the earliest anthropologists who sought to
organize vast quantities of data about the diversity of world cultures that were being
accumulated via colonial and missionary enterprises? - (correct answer)Lewis Henry
Morgan
Franz Boas (1858-1942) rejected unilineal cultural evolution, instead suggesting that
different cultures arise as the result of very different causes, and will vary widely. What
do we call his approach? - (correct answer)historical particularism
Margaret Mead's (1901-1979) fieldwork in Samoa was controversial in part because she
examined sexual freedom, and considered sex to be a matter of ________. - (correct
answer)enculturation
What is one key aspect in how we understand the idea of culture? - (correct
answer)Humans learn culture throughout their lives.
Culture as a system includes knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, and artifacts. It
also must include which of the following? - (correct answer)institutions
Sitting in your anthropology class helps you learn about culture through formal
instruction. What informal learning process helps you learn culture from family, friends,
and the media? - (correct answer)enculturation
Anthropologists seek to counter ethnocentrism by: - (correct answer)objectively,
accurately, and sensitively representing the diversity of human life and culture.
In the course of participant observation, anthropologists are often called on to do things
that they might not ordinarily do. What allows them to develop a keen understanding of
beliefs and practices of others as they conduct fieldwork? - (correct answer)cultural
relativism
Which of the following individuals was among the earliest anthropologists who sought to
organize vast quantities of data about the diversity of world cultures that were being
accumulated via colonial and missionary enterprises? - (correct answer)Lewis Henry
Morgan
Franz Boas (1858-1942) rejected unilineal cultural evolution, instead suggesting that
different cultures arise as the result of very different causes, and will vary widely. What
do we call his approach? - (correct answer)historical particularism
Margaret Mead's (1901-1979) fieldwork in Samoa was controversial in part because she
examined sexual freedom, and considered sex to be a matter of ________. - (correct
answer)enculturation
